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 also think it's the right time to make a switch and it seems that steve jobs is targeting the windows user, 2% market share is not enough for apple. they need 10%-30%
but i don't believe that apple will announce a switch to x86 processors tomorrow, especially not for the Power Macs (G5)
they will propably announce a tablet mac with a ultra low voltage pentium M processor. it make sense to introduce the x86 platform in a machine that does not replace a powerpc machine, but is a new type of apple computer.
i also think it's the right time to make a switch and it seems that steve jobs is targeting the windows user, 2% market share is not enough for apple. they need 10%-30%
but i don't believe that apple will announce a switch to x86 processors tomorrow, especially not for the Power Macs (G5)
they will propably announce a tablet mac with a ultra low voltage pentium M processor. it make sense to introduce the x86 platform in a machine that does not replace a powerpc machine, but is a new type of apple computer.