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Don't Macbook Air's run on intel chips?

• sliverstorm 15y ago
  Perhaps today, but Intel might be getting a little nervous about the A4 and the A5
  • RyanKearney 15y ago
    Ah, it will be the PPC -> x86 mess all over again. Can't wait!
    • nicholasjbs 15y ago
      Apple seems to be getting better at this: The transition from 68k to PPC was a nightmare. The transition from PPC to x86 was surprisingly smooth. I bet the next one will be close to seamless.
      • ams6110 15y ago
        They had already had NEXTSTEP running on 68k, SPARC (I think) and i386 before Apple bought NeXT. Architecture independence has been baked in all along.
        • protomyth 15y ago
          HP-RISC also. The old compatibility guide was kinda big to get faxed to you.
• protomyth 15y ago
  You gotta love the concept of a company's main CPU supplier actively paying the company's competitors to build a clone. I can't help but think the new ARM (> 4 Gb memory) and Microsoft's plans for Windows 8 got Intel a little nervous.