“It was a ‘Hell-has-finally-frozen-over’ moment: In early June, Steve Jobs stood before the most devout of the Mac faithful, software developers for the Mac, and told them that Mac hardware will be based on Intel CPUs in the future. Even though rumors of the news had been circulating for a few weeks, the announcement still came as a shock, since Intel is so closely associated with Microsoft,” Rebecca Freed writes for PC World.
“It’s a testament to Jobs’s persuasive abilities that the news was accepted with relative equanimity by many Mac users and developers. Presumably, all those developers are now working to port their programs to the new Mac architecture,” Freed writes. “On the whole, I bought the story too, although I know that it won’t all go smoothly. Anyone who owns or is considering buying a Mac has to have questions; these are what I think the answers are.”
Freed asks and answers the following questions:
• Why Did Apple Do This, Anyway?
• When Will I Have to Worry About This?
• Will I Have to Buy a New Mac?
• Will My Old Software Work on the New Macs?
• Will My Old Peripherals Work on the New Macs?
• Will This Mean That Macs Get Cheaper?
• Will the Mac OS Run on a PC, and Windows on a Mac?
Full article here.
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Ars Technica: What the switch to Intel means for Apple – June 07, 2005
Apple’s Intel move not without issues – July 03, 2005