Intel (Errors) Inside props to osx86project.org
Monday, 23 January 2006

Welcome to the world of processors politics, or "How I learned to stop worrying and love the errors."

It appears that Intel's new Core Duo - which was released less than a month ago - has errors out the wazoo serial port. Its errata documenation reveals 34 known issues with the processor. That averages out to almost an error and a half a day being discovered. Now, it's nothing new for processors to have errors; the Pentium 4 has 65 known errors. But those 65 have been accumulated over the life of the chip. Should be we concerned? Some think so.




It makes one wonder if the Core Duo was rushed out of the gates at Intel. Should they be shipping such an error-prone chip? Worse yet, should Apple be using it?

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and watch this space until march 23rd for methods of booting xp (natively) on an authentic intel mac.. (why? because you can('t)!!)

http://winxponmac.com/The%20Contest.html