Intel Inside. . . . Your Mac

Apple today announced that beginning in 2006, it will start shipping Macintosh comptuers with Intel processors. For those of you who don't know anny Mac users, they tend to be borderline zealots when it comes to the brains powering their computers. They call those who use Windows computers members of the Dark Side and most always espouse the superiority of the Macintosh when it comes to computing. I first used a Mac in 1988 and remember seeing commercials about the Mac in 1989, where a bunch of corporate types were trying to figure out how to better illustrate their report, and one of the people around the table says "Macintosh", and that was the gist of the entire commercial. Well, it seems that Steve and Company have finally read the writing on the wall and determined, rightly so, that the PowerPC architecture was basically a delayed dead end for the Mac, and Intel would better serve its needs in the future. All I can say is its about time. Apple has really been a great software company that haoppens to sell hardware. There is really nothing wrong with Apple using Intel CPUs to power the next generation Macintosh computers, because, after all, isn't "Intel" only half of "Intelligent?"