Right decision?
so the next generation Intel chip yields poorer performance than the current generation AMD chips when it comes to iTunes and media, but beats them in a bunch of gaming tests?
Maybe good for the 1% of Mac users who are gamers, but not so great for the overwhelming majority.
Then again, AMD vs. Intel is a bit of an irrelevance -- the competition is between Conroe/Intel and what's sitting on the average Mac owner's desktop. Conroe/Intel should blow that away and drive some sales .... IF it is priced in some sort of reasonably competitive range. :-)
It's kind of funny how periodically the Dell-bashing refrain includes criticism of Dell for being 100% locked into Intel. Yet when Apple does the exact same thing, not a peep. Ironically, at a time Dell has finally recognized it's maybe not the best thing to be stuck like that, and probably gradually going to be opening up.
Personally, I think Apple is going mono-chip for a variety of reasons, but one of them is because Jobs is willing to use the PC franchise as a way to subsidize non-PC ambitions. No problem asking Mac PC buyers to pay a bit more for a bit less relative to AMD, if it gets Apple special consideration in the future of ViiV. Just another sign that the commitment to the PC isn't what it once was.
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