Definitely unslung

[Alex Snow]

Well Darwin was running on intel well before the switch happened, so I 
guess that helped them a bit.
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:33:40PM -0500, 
Travis Siegel wrote:
> Actually, the switch to intel wasn't all that bad of a plan.
> The ppc line of processors was running out of upgradability, and the  
> intel still has a lot of life in them.  Thus, the switch was an  
> attempt to remain  competative in the general market.
> With the added bonus that you can now run windows on your mac (if you  
> so choose to ruin such a good machine)
> That's the draw for most, a stable os that still allows execution of  
> all your legacy software just in case you absolutely can't do without  
> it.
> Personally, I have booted into xp roughly 3 times in the last year,  
> so for me, the xp thing was only a nice to have, but definitely not a  
> necessity.
> 
> However, the conversion from ppc to intel went rather smoothly  
> considering it was an entire os that got ported over (I know, linux  
> is on several platforms and it works just fine) Well, now apple has  
> proved it can be done with a commercial os as well.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 5, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Alex Snow wrote:
> 
> > Kind of lost interest when they went intel
> 
> 
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