Apple Going Intel Inside!

In what seems to me to be the biggest announcement in the computer world in the last 10 years, Apple has decided to partner with Intel to replace the IBM/Motorola processor which is currently shipping inside the famed Mac computer. It was announced June 6th at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference. You may be asking, what's the bid deal? The rivalry between Intel with Windows versus Mac has been going on since Windows copied the first Mac computer with Windows 2.0 way back when. Microsoft settled and Apple never looked back. Best known for the iPod music device today, Apple set the standard for modern interfaces on personal computers. Now Apple has decided, under the direction of Apple guru CEO, Steve Jobs, to supplant the Power PC chip with Intel. The implications for the long term development of the company is at first obvious. Intel is light years ahead in low power consumption designed processors. But an added benefit is a possible inroads into the 95% market share that Windows software enjoys on the Intel platform. For us PC chip users, we could have a huge choice to make for a robust Unix based Operating System with a tried and true, solidly built Graphical User Interface in June 2006. If Apple was ever going to take a bite out of the Intel market, this may be Apple getting ready to set the buffet table.



See what my favorite tech pundit, John Dvorak, has to say about this one.