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|  Interesting
i for one think that it's good that Apple is deciding to keep its options open, but if there is a move for Apple to have its OS on x86 architecture, I could only begin to wonder how much of a pain it will be for re-developing apps and such for the new OS and platform. it'll probably be none too dissimilar (if not more severe) than the switch from the 68k processors to the PowerPC G* series.
though if Apple did go x86, I hope they choose AMD over Intel. I could already foresee a lot of swearing if they tried having it on the P4   since AMD is still following with the "improve IPC and mhz" principle that should've stayed in place. Not to mention, I think most everyone knows that for most everything, Apple's G4 (clock-for-clock) would cream a Pentium4. hell, clock-for-clock the original Pentium would beat a P4 (at RC5), apparently
After all, all they say in there is that it's just a way of keeping the options open. And I do think that it bites that Motorola has such a choke-hold on the progress for the Apple architecture right now.
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| From an engineering standpoint it's probably no big deal to build it for x86. Most of the altivec optimized code likely started as C, and build directives control the target of the build. I'm pretty sure a very senior engineer could demo aqua on X86 or Caruso or pretty much any chipset as gcc is a good cross compiler.
The issue at hand is not an engineering one, it's a business one. DVD encryption was broken in what a day? Name any Windows app with mass appeal that there isn't a crack for. Cracking X86 technology is actually a competition if you know the dark corners of the net to watch it unfold.
Apple is a hardware company. They happen to have an awesome Software offering to sell said product. I stand firm on my opinion that throwing that IP in the shark infested waters of X86 is suicide.
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