Sad little apple child

Well, today Steve Jobs made the announcement that Apple will be switching to an Intel platform, which will make the future of Apple computers and interesting one. Now before, I get all up in arms about what seems to be a strange pairing, let me be some what resonable for a moment. Apple has a history of showing how change can be good or spectacularly disasterous,but I digress; it is time for change. There are several limitations with any architecture and the PowerPC seems to be hitting a limit. While both Intel and AMD have recently switched and developed their new architetures of the future, or in the very least next few years. So the change in architecture makes a lot of sense, now assuming that rosseta works as welll as everyone hopes, there is a good chance for a smooth transition, but I have my doubts.

Now on with the ranting, the little mac fanatic inside me nearly died when I heard the rumour about switching to Intel, more or less but probably... very much so based on my previous experiences with Intels product line. In short I'm not a fan, their systems often don't perform well and are usually over priced; not to mention this is the company that brought us the celeron line which in my opnion was the worse low budge chip I've seen since the K6. Granted over the last few years Intel has been improving there other product lines like wireless chipsets however, most of that equipment is already made by Apple, so unless Apple plans on ditching their wireless solutions for Intel's there is little to be gained here. So why does this really tick me off? It's Intel's more recent problems that have me concerned about what they do, like does anyone remember Rambus, I know its old news but this is the company that pretty much went okay if you want our stuff you've gotta have Rambus. More recently Intel's been having problems, in actual production and delivering their untis, on time, by the way so has AMD. Thats probably my biggest fear, the latest mac will be due out on a date an legion of mac addicts will be waiting, drooling in anticipation and then some Intel person will come out and go, "....um.....we've only got 200 units, the rest couldn't get through production..." due to some rambling crap that few will be caring about while they prepare the torches, ultimately leaving a lot of mac users unhappy. In the truest sense, people don't buy macs for the "PC experience" they buy them for the "Mac expereince" and now the two are coming together, leaving the near future very much in question.