The Macalope

V M Respectable:

Tom goes into the AMD thing, too, I see. I’d like to have someone who knows something more about this talk about how likely that is in the short term. To me it just sounds like a lot more work for little benefit: as it is, the OS has to know how to best stroke two different architectures with a number of different feature sets just right to make them purr; adding another with even more permutations, not to mention AMD’s fabled hackability, seems like a hassle. I’m probably way off, but I’d still like someone to not just throw an AMD comment in there so facilely, as though it’s settled one way or the other.

Kordan Harvey:

From what I’ve read are the currently line of Intel chips not showing AMD how it’s really done? I haven’t heard anything from AMD in a long, long time.