“Word earlier this month that Apple will use Intel processors in its next-generation Macintosh computers was a bombshell, but one expected to drop eventually,” Dwight Silverman writes for The Houston Chronicle. “Rumors that Apple had a version of its Mac OS X running on Pentium-class chips have swirled for years. I heard them from fairly reliable sources, but they were nothing I could prove.”
Silverman writes, “Now that the once-unthinkable is about to become a reality, the ramifications are starting to sink in. Apple fans seem split on whether it’s a good thing, with some harking back to the company’s mid-1990s shift to PowerPC processors from IBM and Motorola, which put a serious dent in the Mac’s market share.”
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