fagosu Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 According to Appleinsider, Apple and AMD are in "advanced discussions" to bring the chipmaker's processors to upcoming Macs, potentially breaking the exclusive relationship Apple has held with Intel since moving away from PowerPC processors. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04..._amd_chips.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poofyhairguy Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Could be good for us, could be bad for us. Could be good if Apple has Mac lines with commodity AMD parts as suddenly we would have more choices for hackintoshing and we could get away from all these terrible Intel graphics GPUs. Could be bad if AMD is indulging Job's control freak side and will agree to make specialty CPUs or chipsets just for Apple. One thin that has helped hackintoshing since the start is that Apple was forced to use commodity Intel chipsets as far as the southbuses went. We from the start had working sata support out the box, Intel GMA support, and most of the chipset support. If AMD is willing to make Apple specialty parts to get their business (something big ole Intel would never stoop to do even for Apple), then we might quickly find ourselves locked out of an upgrade path.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XLR Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Mac Pro's with Quad Socket Opterons would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detrich Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 This is a right way for Apple, they just want to be more accessibile with new upcoming low priced macbooks line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 If AMD is willing to make Apple specialty parts to get their business (something big ole Intel would never stoop to do even for Apple), then we might quickly find ourselves locked out of an upgrade path.... Intel doesn't, so why should AMD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumford Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 Intel doesn't, so why should AMD? apple can just buy amd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krishna21 Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 NO. Just NO. According to Appleinsider, Apple and AMD are in "advanced discussions" to bring the chipmaker's processors to upcoming Macs, potentially breaking the exclusive relationship Apple has held with Intel since moving away from PowerPC processors. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04..._amd_chips.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kucksy Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 NO. Just NO. After reading the article myself, this could be a very interesting situation that intel may have put themselves in by wanting "exclusivity" of the GPU's on the mainbords used by apple to manufacture their macintosh line of notebooks (essentially it talks about them doing this for notebooks only but I can guess it could also include newly manufactured macintosh desktops and servers as well. It might seem that Intel could have maybe bitten off more than apple wants them to chew in the say of what goes into their (Apple's) computers. Seemingly it looks as though on the face of it that Apple is starting to be annoyed with being dictated to by Intel. Atleast thats what I get out of the arguement. My only hope from a consumer point of view is that if all this IS infact true, that we dont see that same situation develop as we did when power pc processors were in development and with apple not really interested in keeping up technologically for the sake of wanting to control everything that goes into their computers. Also with AMD they also automatically get ATi GPU's - since AMD owns ATi - maybe will start seeing RADEoN GPUs in new mac's if this does indeed happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 So so, two x86 64bit archs, fattttttt binaries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrizz Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 eww gross AMD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Techie456 Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 That would be awesome because apple computers would have faster processors. Which is also good for us because the price would go down to the price of AMD CPU. Oh better Graphic perfrance probably since AMD would be more to Apple using they're graphics chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTownEgghead Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Interesting, to say the least. This definitely puts Intel between a rock and a hard place, seeing as if this does happen, they'll have a few major decisions to make. That being said, I've never had any issues with my AMD chip... would LOVE to see them in a Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justvisiting Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 That would be awesome because apple computers would have faster processors. Which is also good for us because the price would go down to the price of AMD CPU. Oh better Graphic perfrance probably since AMD would be more to Apple using they're graphics chips. apple getting lower cost components does not lead to lower prices for consumers. Otherwise apple would less than their 40 BILLION cash in the bank. one can hope though .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANARCHiNTOSH Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 eww gross AMD +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Techie456 Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 Well its also good because they're performance and graphics are good to. That and I've never had any problems with they're product in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotAlexX Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 Hopefully this will lead to better AMD hackintosh support in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Techie456 Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 I'm with you on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timdphotos Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 not really affected on the hackintosh side, but cheaper macbooks would be nice This is a right way for Apple, they just want to be more accessibile with new upcoming low priced macbooks line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Techie456 Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 I agree with you on that one, but I think more people would be buying Macs if the prices would go down, which is also good for they economy right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timdphotos Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 If they bring down the prices too much there would be no more need for hackintoshes apart from maybe nostalgia (oh and Gaming) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Apple got screwed over by IBM/Moto and went with Intel. Apple is getting screwed by Intel and is now thinking about AMD. So what happens when Apple gets screwed over by AMD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Techie456 Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 I don't find a problem with that, and plus you can just install VMware, or Virtual box to play games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonota Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Enjoy the Macs costing $200 less now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zephonic Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 I think it could be interesting. If they collaborated/bought/merged with AMD, it may allow them to integrate OS and CPU to a far greater degree, like Intel and MS have been doing for years. If that leads to improved efficiency and performance, what's not to like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poofyhairguy Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 I think it could be interesting. If they collaborated/bought/merged with AMD, it may allow them to integrate OS and CPU to a far greater degree, like Intel and MS have been doing for years. If that leads to improved efficiency and performance, what's not to like? If the integrated CPU+GPU chip has a special version for Macs, then Hackintoshing will die. Seems like a lot to not like.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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