Linked by Craig Dooley on Wed 8th Jun 2005 19:01 UTC
With the announcement that Apple is switching to Intel, the computing world has been thrown a curve ball. Speculation will run rampant for the next year. We obviously won't know what's going to happen until it happens, but I see a bright future coming out of this. I see Apple with more headroom for the future to create better, faster designs. I see much more opportunity for the hacker community to work with this also.
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I really hope Intel sees Apple as a partner who is ideal to showcase Intels best hardware. It makes sense. Longhorn will not come until late 2006 or early 2007. The Linux market is too fractured to be of much use to an ambitious harware maker. Apple has a great OS (Tiger), which will be very mature by 2006. Apple has customers who want good systems, not the cheapest possible boxes. Apple has a well-deserved reputation as an innovative company even in the hardware field (think USB support!).
I do hope Intel will produce some top-quality processors and give them to Apple at cut-rate prices so that we will have lots of Macs that kick anything short of a Cell into next week. Intel will makebig bucks when everybody else wants the same procesors.
As for IBM: Well, history repeats itself. They had a great technology and blew it. This happened with OS/2, now it happens again with PowerPC.