Re: [SLUG] Apple shifts to Intel

From: James Haydon (jhaydon@stewartsigns.com)
Date: Thu Jun 09 2005 - 13:01:06 EDT


On Thursday, June 9, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Mavrick wrote:

> Anybody else seen this yet? Steve Jobs announced 3 days ago that
> Apple will be shifting vendors from IBM to Intel for all of their
> cpu's by 2007. Maybe its just me, but this is BIG news. We are sure
> to see some major changes in the business and home computer markets in
> the very near future, and with those changes there is bound to be
> confusion with all companies involved (i.e. Microsoft et.al). What a
> great time this could be for everything Linux. Click on the link
> below for a good article from Computerworld.
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/
> 0,10801,102293,00.html?from=story_package
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eric

Pamela Jones, of Groklaw, thinks it has to do with the DRM support in
the Pentium D.

James

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