Snowballs are being thrown around in hell.
In a move that I can't really quite understand, yesterday, Steve Jobs announced that in the future, Apple Computers will be produced with Intel chips, abandoning their long relationship with IBM and their PowerPC chip.
I don't know why Apple would choose to do this, other than to increase marketshare more by going with a more widely accepted (and much cheaper) chipset for their computers...wait...I guess that's a pretty good idea.
And to be honest, I don't care. As long as OS X continues to rock the house as the best operating system on the planet, I will be happy. If they don't screw it up on the Intel boxes, they should be fine. I say, the more Mac users, the merrier.
UPDATE: Todd Dominey over at WhatDoIKnow.org has a great overview of the news. Explains a lot.
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- I'm Shane. I'm from Kansas. I do not live, nor have I ever lived, on a farm. I'm confident in saying that I'm a metrosexual (although I refuse to shave my goatee...I don't care what the book says). I like movies and music and pop culture and - most of all - my wife.
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It seems to me that there's one real good reason they did this: PowerBooks. Apple nuts have been clamoring for G5 PowerBooks for a long time. And it seems that this announcement is basically admitting that they weren't going to be able to do it, at least, not to Jobs' satisfaction. A new powerful notebook will be one of the first things we see out of this. Hopefully it will come just after my wife's ancient laptop dies!
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