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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This move effectivly destorys the top reasons peopl won't buy macs right now.
The top reasons (as untrue as some may be) follow:
1.) They are too expensive
2.) They are slower then PCs
3.) I rely on some obscure peice of windows software
4.) There arn't as many programs
5.) There aren't any games
The switch solves these in the following ways:
1.) Intel hardware is mass produced, it will be much cheaper for apple to use Intel processors, motherboards, and x86 compatible video cards. Even if they keep the same profit margins the prices on all systems will drop by a few hundred dollars (possibly excluding the mini).
2.) The hardware is now the same, there is no longer anything to compare.
3.) Dual boot with windows to use necessary software.
4.) There are plenty of programs, if you can't find one you can always dual boot. But i doubt it'll be necessary.
5.) Games will be much easier to port now, and even ones that don't get ported can always be run in windows.
Nothing but good can come of this switch, great job Apple.