Mark Roulo (nothanks.delete@this.xxx.com) on August 4, 2014 8:43 am wrote:
> Yuhong Bao (yuhongbao_386.delete@this.hotmail.com) on August 3, 2014 2:24 pm wrote:
> > http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/08/03/macintel-the-end-is-nigh
>
> From the article: "The x86 nickname used to designate Wintel chips originates from the 8086
> processor introduced in 1978 – itself a backward-compatible extension of the 8088"
>
> But the 8088 was released in 1979 ... one year after the 8086.
>
> As others here have pointed out, the "facts" in the article are either old or wrong.
>
> And I see folks still pushing the idea that RISC has a huge edge
> over x86 for large CPUs ... it worked so well for PowerPC.

You have to remember that the hard core old school Macophile is still caught up in the decade of convincing themselves that their PowerPC macs were much faster and better than the PCs of the time.. and still yearn for that point of difference.
These days they are paying through the nose for a bit of trendy design, and a BIOS cusomised enough to run their OS out of the box.
NOT that I am saying current mac hardware is bad - its simply a slightly customised PC platform in a pretty box with a markup, but they want MORE than that.

Dont underestimate their need to be 'better', its a strong market force with Apple.