6 Jun
2005
6 Jun
'05
11:06 p.m.
On Monday 06 June 2005 7:12 pm, Martyn Drake wrote:
Well, this is apparently true - they ARE going to the x86 platform:
Well I for one am shocked. I really thought Apple were going to pull some Power PC IP out of the bag and get Intel to build/develop PPC chips for them.
I can't help thinking that this is going to be quite bad for Apple (at least in the short term) and if it does indeed run on beige box hardware then I think it may be a little damaging to the linux comunity as well.
A lot of potential switchers (Windows to Linux) will suddenly have another option without the previous barrier of buying new hardware.
(from an end user perspective) OSX can look a bit more accessible and attractive......Hmm interesting times ahead.