Recently we wrote about the rumours that Apple were considering the use of Intel as a supplier of CPUs for Macintosh computers. Well it turns out that the rumours may have been true after all. Cnet has an article claiming that Apple will ditch IBM PowerPCs in favour of Intel. Apparently an announcement from Apple is due on Monday.
This is not news likely to please Macintosh fans. The difference between the Mac and the Wintel PC is likely to become allot smaller and in fact may come down to only the style/appearance and OSX as differentiation. It isn’t likely to make developers all that happy either since all binary releases would have to be recompiled and possibly ported to the new platform. I guess the truth will be in the details and for those we’ll have to wait for Monday.
