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Apple Switching to Intel
Steve Jobs announced at the WWDC keynote today that Apple is switching to Intel processors. MacNN has live coverage. The bottom line is that Mac OS X for the last five years has been running on Intel, the switch is expected to be complete in two years, and Rosetta will allow PPC apps to run on Intel-based Macs, transparently. If you're using Xcode, it is small changes and a recompile; otherwise, you might be seeing a lot of work ahead of you. You will be able to order the 10.4.1 preview for Intel today.
"This sux, this sux even more for my friend who just bouhgt a dual 2.7GHz G5 with 6.5GB of ram who is SWEARING he'll never ever get fucked like that again, imagine how this guy is pissed, just imagine, he just got fucked of over 3500$CAN on a platform that is being dismissed by the company who sold it to him not even 2 month ago."
Does apples announcement today mean that your friends computer just all of a sudden stops working? I would the say he was the idiot for spending that much money on a PC to start with but thats another arguement for another day.