Intelitoshes by 2006
All the hype about Apple getting their chips from Intel from 2006! What does it mean, as far as the operating sytem as we know goes and is it going to work with our OSX apps we have all purchased?I suppose this move is much the same as when they moved from the Motorola chip to PowerPC IBM chip, the Mac really stayed the much the same and many of the applications still functioned much the same. But now Apple is going to an Intel chip, hmmm, I think that it may take a while for the diehard Mac user to get used to this. And lets hope we dont abandon ship yet.
Hey, if it means a better quicker machine then I'm all for it, but if it backfires, then it means the end of Apple, just when it has come out of the doledrums and won market share with the success of the iPod and Panther and early days of Tiger.
05-06 is going to be an interesting time at Appleland.
posted by grechy @ 3:27 pm
1 Comments:
Dude! I don't think the Intel move will make that big a difference. Maybe it will mean faster Macs. Maybe it will mean Macs that are a little cheaper. Maybe it will mean that the Mac operating system will run on non-Apple hardware! And the Intel chip has digital rights management built-in, so Jobs can say to the movie studios "I want to create an iVideo store, and I can keep your product from being pirated away." It all sounds good, but I kind of hate to see one company having a monopoly on computer chips.
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