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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RE: legacy
Intel won't make special chips for Apple, but apple won't have to support any legacy things since there is no legacy of an Intel Mac. No serial/parallel/ps/2. No old applications that still require vm86 mode. It is a chance to start fresh.
RE: integrated graphics
I don't like the idea either, and I do think that OS X needs a fast 3d card to really shine, but it is an option they will have now that they didn't before. They can cut costs and reduce power usage if they decide the desktop experience will be good enough integrated graphics. It gives them new options and the opportunity to make cheaper, smaller, more power efficient macs if they decide to do so.
RE: powerpc extremists
I didn't mean to offend anyone. I was just going for the people who say the only reason they ran Mac was for the processor. I think the Mac experience will be the same on Intel as it was on PowerPC. People will fight RISC vs. CISC until the end of time, but in the end, I think it's the total package apple puts together more than the processor it runs on. I think the people who say they are going to dump Apple because it's going x86 are bluffing.