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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Apple is probably exausted from having to provide a lot of the momentum for IBM Power on the desktop. With x86, they don't need to do that, since the momentum is already there. No more sweating it out to see if IBM's priorities are in making faster desktop chips, if they're priorities don't change down the road, to push them to get a certain chip out in time. All of that is already provided with x86, without Apple doing a damn thing.