OT: but interesting to Mac users

[Stephen Barncard]

WHat a mess. I, for one, don't look forward to this changeover. It 
will not be hassle-free by a long shot. The last one (osx) was not 
that smooth and took 5 years to get right. And every developer has to 
re-compile every app. Nice. And what do we do in the stores; 
Apple-MotoIBM versions and Apple-INTEL versions? A lot of people are 
not going to understand. And a lot of people are going to cling to 
their old G5s and good old Tiger.

That should do as well as dual stocking for mono and stereo LPs did 
in the late 50's.

Also what about the superiority of the G5 ?? The amazing server-farm 
supercomputers, etc.

Can't these guys find another source for G5 chips?

sqb

At 1:03 PM +0100 6/4/05, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>According to a story on slashdot,
>
>/"According to C|Net, Apple has officially decided to drop IBM 
><http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips/2100-1006_3-5731398.html?tag=nefd.lede>, 
>and will use Intel processors starting in their '06 line of systems. 
>This change was rumored last month 
><http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/05/23/1052218.shtml?tid=118>. 
>The announcement is expected Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer 
>Conference in San Francisco, at which Chief Executive Steve Jobs is 
>giving the keynote speech."/ From the article: /"Apple successfully 
>navigated a switch in the 1990s from Motorola's 680x0 line of 
>processors to the Power line jointly made by Motorola and IBM. That 
>switch also required software to be revamped to take advantage of 
>the new processors' performance, but emulation software permitted 
>older programs to run on the new machines."/
>
>--
>Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net