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1. Comment - AmEx Offering Swipeless Credit Cards

   (Jun 6, 2005 - 7:49 PM)

   in aust we've had that blue card with the chip for 2-3 years now.. and used it once just to try it out.. big deal havent bothered going out of my way to find a store that has it so far.. and the stores that do support it, dont even offer it to you when you show the card.. they just swipe it and throw it back at ya sayin, nothing about gettin any special deal for using it at all. time saver getting on the trains i guess.. like japan.

2. Comment - Apple Announces Switch to Intel Chips

   (Jun 6, 2005 - 7:38 PM)

   UPDATE: After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that." However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac."
   
   http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10765
   
   and heres the CHIP apple wants and is going to get.. and WHY. end of story.
   
   http://www.pcworld.com/n...cle/0,aid,121027,00.asp
   
   later
   Rexy Inc

3. Comment - Reports Say Apple Switching to Intel

   (Jun 6, 2005 - 1:39 AM)

   "Although IBM suffers a setback with the loss of Apple, the company could reap a financial windfall from deals with Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. to put microprocessors it is producing in next-generation video-game consoles.
   
   A new microprocessor that IBM co-developed with Sony and Toshiba, code-named Cell and planned for Sony's next PlayStation console, is being touted as capable of delivering 10 times the performance of today's PC processors. "
   
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   there ya go, ibm will be SOOO busy making these new CELL chips they wont miss the 3 million apple chips at all. either that or apple got pissed that ibm wont sell them the new cell chips to use in the mac that they threatened to pull out, and ibm yelled, 'cyas suckers!'
   
   now intel on the other hand.. i thought had a great partnership with microsoft.. until ms threw a ibm chip in the new xbox360.. if i was apple, i'd be asking for 'in' on the new cell chips, even if they have to buy ps3 from sony and rip out the cpus! hehe.. cos as far as i can tell the new xbox360 could very well be bios'd and windows xp media could be playing on it.. whats to stop ms adding a USB keyboard and a mouse, ( opps just checked, someone already HAS:D ) and you'd have a xbox360 running winxp? and that rocks!.. http://www.gearlive.com/..._mouse_adapter_06030929/
   
   "SONY has announced that it has shipped more than 90 million PS2 units since the product went on sale in March of 2000. Seemingly, the PS2 passed the 90-million mark on June 2, and is well on its way to beating the original Playstation, which has sold more than 100 million units to date. " source: http://www.techspot.com/story17769.html
   
   well, do you want to sell 90 to 100 MILLLION cpu units, or just "Apple shipped 1,046,000 Macintosh units during this quarter, representing a 26% increase in CPU units over the year-ago quarter." source: http://macdailynews.com/...hp/weblog/comments/5931/
   
   the slimline sony ps2 sold just over 16million of that figure.. so there ya go, we could see this coming a mile off... It's a numbers game for IBM.
   
   i just hope apple go's for this.. http://www.tomshardware....cpu/20050525/index.html
   cos AMD's dual-core rips Intels new dual-core to bits as seen here Live Stress Test: The Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Vs. The Pentium 840 EE http://www.tomshardware....cpu/20050603/index.html
   
   showing AMD is almost twice as fast in same tests~! blowing Intel to bits.. and more reliable, as seen here http://www.tomshardware.com/stresstest/index.html
   
   Enjoy
   Rexy Inc.
   
   PS: OOH just remembered.. the new xbox360 was running on two APPLE G5's at the E3 game show just a week or two ago... the XBOX360 OS was running on pretty much STOCK G5's~!..( theres apix showing the hardware that was used to demo the xbox at the E3 game show where the xbox was shown for the first time.. ) mmm this could be interesting.. can i run APPLE OS on a XBOX360 perhaps?.. ooh the hardware hackers are going to just love this.. maybe this could be why apple wants off of the IBM powerchips ??