Designmudd Ramblings on mostly Web Design & Development - Print too.

WWDC was today and apple announced they will be dumping IBM chips for Intel. IBM’s roadmap was looking grim and so here we are. Do I care? Not really, the OS is what get’s me. Do I think this is a good move for Apple? Yes, I think this is a move that will increase it’s market share for a variety of reasons (but i’m too frigin tired to sit here and make bullet lists). A few funny things about the conference…

1) Apple has been secretly working on an x86 version of osX for 5 Years!
2) The Demo computer at the conference was actually running on an intel Processor

Ah, anyway… it will be another bumpy transition for most… but if I remember moving to OSX myself correctly, it wasn’t all that bad. I have to wonder how the poor little printshops will react to this news. Also noteworthy, although Windows won’t be supported on the mac x86, it will be doable. We’re talking about a machine that runs both platforms natively, that’s pretty hot.

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