flynn23 wrote:

What makes a Mac a Mac isn't the processor under the hood. It's Apple's elegant operating system, OS X, which won't see major changes for 18 months, and the company's stylish hardware designs, which it will continue to produce. When you peer at the screen of the first Intel-based Mac, it will look just like today's PowerPC Macs, only it should run faster.

Finally, someone who doesn't have an agenda or isn't freaking out by the Apple/Intel (still weird typing that) switch.

To a point, agreed. I was a Solaris sparc user for quite a while in the early to mid 90s and had a chance to try solaris intel. While the look and feel was virtually the same, they did not work quite the same. Admittedly, a big problem was in lacking 3rd party support for hardware and apps but in the end, the OSs and resultant user experience were not compeltely interchangeable. I currently own 2 G4 macs but I also look forward to what Apple will be able to do with this.

RE: Apple/Intel switch - some reasonable perspective