Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 5th Jun 2005 22:11 UTC
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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I have to disagree.
As much as I love OS X, the *only* reason that apple succeeded in going from OS 9 to OS X is that there was a way to run old software, without recompiliing, with no performance hit!
If apple switches to x86, this advantage goes bye bye.
Linux has an advantage of OS X with all the software that it has already running on it.