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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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.
PowerPCs are found in all three next-gen game consoles. We're looking at 100 million+ units here, or the equivalent of 20 years of Mac computers. IBM didn't "blow" anything.
Personally, the big news for me is the Cell-based Linux workstation that's supposed to be demoed at Linux Tag. That should be interesting...