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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Sure, the switch may allow for greater performance/cost ratio and less hassle with chip availability. But what about that threading performance problem in the OS that was all the talk last week? And, should I care whether my compiler will be writing x86 or PPC instructions? What about fat binaries... how much total system bloat will that add? Surely AAPL are working hard to resolve these problems and isolate the user from any back-end changes. I just hope that they don't create something that is a monster to maintain due to supporting multi-architectures, emulation, etc. The beauty of mac is it's seamlessness. I suppose that's my biggest concern.