Star Editorial: Why Apple's Switch Makes Sense NOW
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 5th Jun 2005 22:11 UTC
Apple After News.com's Friday report that Apple is moving to Intel/x86, the respected publication Wall Street Journal and now NYTimes threw their reputation behind the rumor. Many people still remain skeptical, but I personally believe that the time is right for Apple to switch to x86-64, for two main reasons:
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Why does intel based mac = cheaper stuff?
by mini-me on Sun 5th Jun 2005 22:39 UTC

I've got a news flash for all of you:
Do a bang per buck and you will see that macs are comparably priced as Windows computers. Apple does not produce junk PCs that are crap as soon as you get them out of the box, that is why you dont get $500 macs with KB/MS/LCD/CPU !

All of the parts that apple uses to make its macs now are comodity hardware! nothing special. Further more, just because something uses x86 doesn't mean that games would be easier to port. A lot of games use DirectX which STILL does not have a mac version