You haven't worked in education have you, almost all of the software that they use is "really old crap" most of the software is just warmed over windows 95 code that was badly written back then.
This is a move to get more software on the mac faster. I dissagree with the switch because it kills off diversity but this is all in an effort for greater compatibility. Whith this switch the mac now has access to almost the entire x86 codebase without emulation. Sure the windows rubbish will need rewriting to rid it of windows API calls but there is now effectivly one platform. One piece of code can be written to perform on one type of chip. All of the control logic can be tuned to x86.
x86 has more software so although you may loose a lot of brilliant software from the powerpc side we will gain enormous amounts from x86.
Main stream games can be released more easily and alot more quickly than before. I mean an x86 chip and the newer macs come with radion cards. The changes needed are now much more minimal.
Apple had better be careful though. Otherwise they will become another PC manufacturer whith pretty cases.
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You haven't worked in education have you, almost all of the software that they use is "really old crap" most of the software is just warmed over windows 95 code that was badly written back then.
This is a move to get more software on the mac faster. I dissagree with the switch because it kills off diversity but this is all in an effort for greater compatibility. Whith this switch the mac now has access to almost the entire x86 codebase without emulation. Sure the windows rubbish will need rewriting to rid it of windows API calls but there is now effectivly one platform. One piece of code can be written to perform on one type of chip. All of the control logic can be tuned to x86. x86 has more software so although you may loose a lot of brilliant software from the powerpc side we will gain enormous amounts from x86. Main stream games can be released more easily and alot more quickly than before. I mean an x86 chip and the newer macs come with radion cards. The changes needed are now much more minimal. Apple had better be careful though. Otherwise they will become another PC manufacturer whith pretty cases.