Jun 06, 2005

Apple has a new girlfriend

Well, as you may have already heard, Steve Jobs announced today that Apple will switch (no pun intended) from IBM to an Intel microprocessor over the next 2 years. Some die-hard Apple fans are whining about it but I think this was the smart move by Apple. IBM just wasn’t cuttin it (what happened to the promised 3.0 Ghz of last summer… and they STILL don’t have it?) and Apple was smart to dump them.

For those of you that don’t understand what this means… Basically Apple used to use a different processor hardware type than the traditional PC computer. This is a big reason why Apple software doesn’t run on a PC and vice-versa and why you could only buy a computer that run Apple OS X from Apple itself.

Now that the processors will be basically the same between Apple and PC, it will be interesting to see how things go in the upcoming year or so.

Will Apple Software (such as Final Cut Pro, iLife, etc) see the light on the PC platform?