[X4U] Apple's move to Intel chips

[Steve Self]

>> That's why I cringe everytime someone compares the OS X timeline to
>> XP/Longhorn. Not nearly fair.

I have contended for a few years now that MS needs to draw the line  
from all that old MSDOS and Win95 software and simply not support it  
any more... After all, there are win95 machines out there for $50 and  
they will run all that arcane and passe software.

Another slant... It is a fair comparison, they are both OS's and what  
the people in charge choose is part of the comparison. Gates and Co.  
choose to swell Longhorn to the most extreme of bloatware and choose  
to support all the ill-advised choices made by the 3rd party people  
to keep maximum compatibility... Then they end up with a swollen cow  
OS that is too late to the market. It tries to do everything at a  
moderate level of satisfaction.

Compare this to OSX which is not compatible with EVERYTHING and does  
not claim to be... And does a lot with grace, elan and good design. I  
still cringe every time I have to use a Windoze mouse pointer and how  
robotic it feels as compared to the OSX mouse pointer. I suppose  
there are a lot of people who care less for aesthetics and just want  
Walmart prices and mediocre performance with infinite compatibility  
and can suffer daily crashes without tossing the box out the (real)  
window.

Anyway - The move to Intel will be TOTALLY transparent to 97% of  
users...

Andy Ihnatko:  http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin- 
andy09.html

Walt Mossberg:  http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20050609.html