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Good point. One of the reasons for the Mac's success, during the last 7 years, has been the x86 architecture. They better know what they're doing - I would hat
by kalms 14y ago
Good point.
One of the reasons for the Mac's success, during the last 7 years, has been the x86 architecture. They better know what they're doing - I would hate for history to repeat itself.
- protomyth 14y agoA lot of people I know jumped to the Mac (more than 100 machines) because of bootcamp / vmware. I don't think they would have felt safe otherwise.
- kalms 14y agoI'm one of them.
- rhizome 14y agox86 has been a follow-on benefit to the evolution of OSX, particularly after Panther (10.3). Since OSX is based on FreeBSD, it was a short hop to x86 once they got the OS kinks ironed out (and their PowerPC arrangements expired).