Steve Jobs previously wanted to swtich to intel?

[voodoofish]

maybe i've just been being thick and missed this one before, but in a new CNET article, it says:


"Weren't you there during the discussions when IBM convinced Apple to adopt the G5?
Mayer: In my previous job, I ran IBM's semiconductor business. So I've seen both sides of the Apple story, because I sold the G5 to Steve (Jobs) the first time he wanted to move to Intel."

(emphasis mine)

i'd knew that they'd been building Mac OS X for intel since the beginning, but this interview makes it sound like steve has previously wanted to switch to intel but had been talked out of it by IBM....

 

[bousozoku]

Steve Jobs said in the early days of Mac OS X that that Intel was being considered as a new processor source. I think he and Andy Grove were drinking it up and playing the "What would I do, if I were in control?" game and came to an agreement.

Anyway, it's done. It shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone.

 

[Daedalus256]

It's very possible. But I guess with IBM powering the new Xbox 360 with the PowerPC cores (oh the irony) I guess they figured they didn't feel like talking him out of moving again.

I'm excited about the intel switch aside from one thing. I wanted to see a G5 Powerbook. Oh well.

 

[portent]

It's logical enough that Intel was considered as an alternative before Apple adopted the G5. Apple has admitted that an x86 version of Mac OS X has been maintained internally since day one.