Posted on Tuesday 4 October 2005 - Popularity: unranked
Intel has announced that they will be discontinuing their 915G chipsets. This chipsets are close to what’s inside Apple’s Developer Transition Kits. Why? Two possible reasons (the first one seams to be the official one):
1. The chipsets are not powerful enough to handle the (resource-hogging) demanding GUI effects of Windows Vista’s Aeroglass. However, they’re good enough to run Quartz Extreme without any problems.
2. To make the (illegal) OSx86 run natively you need this chipsets. So by dropping it, pirating the Intel version of OS X can be stopped, at least for a while. Of course the question is if Apple and Intel are now this close that Intel drops a whole family of chipsets just to make Apple happy.
