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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Microsoft's Xbox (err, media center PC) runs on PPC. Will Longhorn? (Hint: change two bytes in media center's install registry to turn it into Longhorn.) OS X runs on PPC. Linus uses PPC at home, and everybody emulates Linus.
IBM is back-ordered.
It was only time before Intel became the next big PPC player.
Microsoft's Xbox (err, media center PC) runs on PPC. Will Longhorn? (Hint: change two bytes in media center's install registry to turn it into Longhorn.) OS X runs on PPC. Linus uses PPC at home, and everybody emulates Linus.
IBM is back-ordered.
It was only time before Intel became the next big PPC player.