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Apple goes Intel. Why?

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At this point, all the clumpsyness of using Wintel seems overshadowed buy the hungryness for transitions by Apple; that hungryness makes Apple humpty dumpty.

I'm sure that Apple didn't want to have to make this transition, but they were pretty much forced into a corner. I've been paying attention to both Intel and AMD's progress over the past year, and it seems that their roadmaps look really good. A lot better than the PowerPC roadmap, anyway.

There's a reason why most people, including myself, use the Mac platform. It's certainly not because of the hardware, although the designs are great, they've been lacking a lot of the newer technologies found on the x86 side. PCI-e is a great example of that. Now, there should be no reason why Mac users get left behind.

Another great thing about this transition is that there is a greater potential of Apple gaining more marketshare, and at the same time gain a lot of new developers. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a surge in Mac gaming, for example.

Before anyone gets all bent of shape over this transition, just remember that it's for the best, and that PowerPC can no longer benefit Mac users with its future roadmap. That's just an unfortunate fact of life.