If your’re faster and you know it clap your chips! If you’re faster and you know it clap your chips! If you’re faster and you know it better innovate or you’ll blow it (IBM) if you’re faster and you know it clap your chips!

seriously, this is funny: Powermac Performance Charts

The statement is this:

The PPC has top ended. By the time the Macintels ship, the pentium will have passed em. Drink your kool aid. So buy those g5s today, and then other stuff tomorrow!

Q: Will a Macintel run Classic applications? A: No, Classic is dead on Macintel computers and forward

Q: But wait! That means Hypercard is dead! A: Sigh, yes it does.

Q: Will Macintels use Open Firmware or PC like BIOS? A: Macintels do not use Open Firmware. What they do use, I am not sure. There will be system calls to replace Open Firmware to query what hardware is available, etc.

Q: Why is Apple dumping the PPC? A: Many reasons, but most likely because IBM promised Steve (Jobs) 3ghz G5s by last summer and failed to deliver. Yet IBM is making similar 3.2ghz PPC chips for the XBOX 360. Apple says it believes Intel has the roadmap for the next 10 years. We’ll see. This does afford some competition between motherboard chip manufacturers (VIA, etc) and processor manufacturers (Intel, AMD)

Q: Will OS X Leopard (10.5) run on a generic PC? A: Short answer: No. Long answer: Not with a lot of hacking. OS X is Open Firmware based and Apple’s Macs with Intel Inside will be also. Apple could also put custom chips (ASICs) on the motherboard to make running OS X on a generic PC much harder. Time will tell if somone is able to hack OS X onto a generic PC, but if they do, look for the lawyers. Apple makes nice money from selling boxes and stands to only increase their profit margin with this switch.

Q: Will I need to get all new software? A: Hard to tell at this point. There was mention of a emulation layer. Until we know how fast it is, etc, I can’t speculate. For most applications, emulation will probably be “ok.” For some applications, like Photoshop, you’ll want a native version.

Q: Will it be hard for developers to make their software work on these new Macs? A: Most likely not. If a developer’s application already compiles with XCODE, then a recompile should work, followed by some changes for the differences in Intel and PPC. As for Altivec code, I’d guess that is toast.

Q: Will my Mac be suceptible to all of these Windows viruses? A: No, not unless you run some form of windows on your Mac. This is no different than if you ran Virtual PC on your Mac and let the Virtual PC have access to your entire home directory. Nothing changes here. OS X is OS X and is not more virus prone due to a processor change.

Q: When will these Intel based Macs be available? A: Jobs says there will be machines available by this time next year, 2006, and by 2007 there will be no Macs shipping with PPC processors.

Over at , Bill provides a unique view on this entire Apple and Intel drama - Intel making PowerPCs for Apple. Seems doable and would make a ton of sense.

Sure, Apple could switch. But recall when Apple did the PPC switch, they emulated a 68K very well. Could they do the same for PPC? Expecting people to switch 100% of their applications in one swoop is asking too much.

Or is it? What if Apple shipped one of these new “Tablets” we’ve heard so much about running an Intel processor. Akin to the iPod, it may not be “a Macintosh.” It may run Mac apps, but be different enough that you’d migrate some content but generally use it for a different purpose. Much like moving your mp3 content to an iPod but just listening to it on the device.

Who knows, but the game is fun and we’ll find out tomorrow morning if the rumors that an announcement will be made are true. Frankly, my bet is on nothing happening at all.

So my 39th birthday came and went. I ended up alone, as my dinner plans fell through, but I had a headache from hell as well, so that was all good. Papa Murphy’s pizza, a nap, and even my Dad called, so was all good

Thursday I went to dinner with Jeanne and had a blast. The two Madritas from Lauro’s didn’t hurt either. Am glad we walked home, heh. She is really comforting to talk with.

Friday night, Mary took me out to dinner and I wanted to go to Rose Fest at Waterfront park as I had never been. Mary rocks, she is so understanding. Had corn dogs, lemonade, chocolate covered cheesecake (From Rocky Mtn!) and even rode the Ferris Wheel. That is more of a Tower of Terror than the real deal is

Saturday morning I got up early to meet Jennifer at the Apple Store opening in the Bridgeport froo froo mall in Tigard (Roughly 7 miles from our other Apple store I am told). I didn’t catch Jennifer (who was there to get a shirt for Lucien. I want a wife like that!) until she was headed inside, despite my searching the line for her.

I did see Janet and Charles though and had a grand time being Mac dorks for 90 minutes while waiting for the store to open so we could go in, high fivin’ the employees, getting our shirts, lookin’ around, thinkin’ “Eh, if I need anything, will get it from the Mac store” and heading out. We walked to breakfast and then headed home, oh, hmm yeah we went through the store one more time

Janet invited me to dinner at their place for a Firefly party. I had not seen the show but liked it! I guess I like most of Josh’s work. Dinner was most excellent and was nice to socialize with a group of people. Wish I had gotten a picture of the Pornographic Dessert though. Tasty it was, too!

During the afternoon I decided to not procrastinate (go me!) and get my kitchen and office cleaned up. Now I can vacuum the floor and actually use the pinball machine. I have some shredding to do this morning and a little bit of filing, but it is so calming to just get my stuff done, ahead of schedule, so I can enjoy a Sunday without feeling stressed about stuff I have to do.

I hope you had a great week as well!

I had noticed that most of my Home calendar, including birthdays and anniversaries, was empty on both machines I .Mac sync. No idea why, but the data was gone.

So I decided from now on I’d put birthdays into address book and use a birthday tool to create a calendar from it. I could not find my Calendar file so I used spotlight to search for “home” and wow, it found all of my home events! Double clicking each one opened it in iCal to show it had expired 2 years ago, etc, so I reset the alarms and the ending date (to never) and synced up with .Mac.

Whew! Still need to find where those calendars are kept, as I like the idea of generating the calendar from Address Book vs. trusting iCal, but Spotlight came through for once!