Well, It's Official ... Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

[Andres Tello Abrego]

Maybe we will need to wait until IBM makes Power5 based laptops....

But, now IBM is no making any computer for users, they sell all this to 
lenovo...

I will star looking for xbox 360! it has a power based microprocessor, a 
helluva graphic card and a very nice sound subsystem...

Future is weird I will have a microsoft hardware designed for gaimming 
based on powerpc running linux as a file server...

And also I wonder, what would be the future of terrasoft? Should they 
start looking to be bougth by IBM based on ther power skills based on 
linux?


Ken Schweigert wrote:
> I guess this was announced during WWDC today.
> 
> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html
> 
> Althought I don't see any specific info on the chips being X86, but
> with a Transition Kit available doesn't leave much hope for it staying
> PPC.
> 
> For me, PPC was the major selling point for running linux on Mac
> hardware.  Little-endian, big-endian; not susceptible to intel-based
> buffer overflows, etc.  It doesn't seem like there will be much of a
> reason to buy Mac hardware anymore since the insides of it will be the
> same as the insides of an X86 box I can build.

> 
> Could this be the end??
> 
> -ken