[DM-MUG] Switch to Intel Processors from MacFixIt

[Matthew Wheeler]

Also today on MacFixit:
Apple not pursuing 64-bit Intel processors? Preview of difficulty in 
porting.
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050607081920942>

Perhaps Apple will sell *more* of the current G5's due to this change?

MW

On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Russ Carlson wrote:

> For better or worse, we are all in for a headache
>
> by Ted Landau
>
> So...as Steve Jobs revealed at the WWDC Keynote address today, Apple 
> intends to have its complete Mac line running on Intel processors by 
> 2007. A demo version of the Mac OS running on a Pentium processor was 
> shown at the Keynote. It was using an Intel-based version of Mac OS X 
> that Jobs said had been in development for years.
>
...

> Personally, I trust Steve enough to know that he would not have made 
> this move on a whim. He would need to be convinced that there was no 
> better option. Still, that doesn't mean it is good news for Mac users. 
> Personally, I am feeling a bit nervous right now. It will take some 
> time, and some good progress reports on how this transition is going, 
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