Spontaneous Monotony

Yes, it has been confirmed that Apple’s much-rumoured switch from PowerPC to Intel will begin in June of next year. What seems likely is that lower-spec systems such as the Mac Mini (and possibly the iBook) will get Celerons and Pentium Ms respectively, and by mid-2007 the high spec machines such as the Power Mac will have some sort of Intel chip on them.

Also, it emerged that Apple have had all versions of Mac OS X running on Intel chips (not hard to do seeing as Unix, the base for OS X, runs on Intel), which suggests that this could be a plan to get more people to switch over to MacOS: how does ‘get all the benefits of a Mac, keep your current computer’ sound?

See Also

• ArsTechnica: Apple switching to Intel x86 CPU line
• Geek Ramblings: Intel Macintosh rumors true!

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