Nearly impossible to believe but it’s true !
Steve Jobs has just announced that as soon as from next year (2006), Macintosh computer will be sold with Intel processors.
The main argument for Intel is that Intel (with its great Pentium-M) can as from today give Apple a processor which can be used in the next line of Mac PowerBooks !
So very very exciting times ahead ! Once more ! And I’m sure that (as one guy on Slashdot said) “it will be the most brilliant business decision made since he [Steve Jobs] invented the MP3 player.”
Eddy Young says
Aren’t you glad you have not bought your Powerbook yet? :-) On another note, I just received a brand new Dell D610 at work today. It looks like a very sturdy machine, even with Windows XP on it. In fact, I am considering my next laptop to be a Wintel.
/me ducks for cover!
avinash says
If fact, my father (who is in London) asked me if he should buy a laptop for me (as he is coming to Mauritius in 2-3 weeks) and I said no… I was so keen to get a PowerBook G5. But, deep inside, I knew that I would have to wait a lot because a mobile G5 was not on IBM’s roadmap (they were too busy with The Cell)
So, when I head the rumours about Apple using Intel processors (2-3 days before the official announcement), I immediately said to Christina:
“Lo and behold, our next computer will be an Apple Mac laptop featuring an Intel Pentium-M (or a dual-core 64 bits derivative…) and, for once, it seems to me I was right ;-)”
Delphine Rudolph says
Hi, A Friend of mind have lost his Mac Powerbook G4 Adaptor , Avinash, I live in Maritius too.. can you inform me where i can get one to buy. I was so Excited to work with because of it’s powerfull capacitiy of Graphic and Multimedia.
Thanks.
avinash says
Hi Delphine,
I guess you can buy one from LCI (http://www.lci.mu/). That’s where I bought my MacBook.