Apple to Switch
Monday, June 06, 2005
Preparing for Apple Switch
Stay away from cars with “In case of Rapture” stickers
Stock up on canned goods and bottled water
Buy guns and ammunition
Buy Kerosene Heaters & Lamps
Have a transistor radio with spare batteries
Learn how to shoot, your life may depend on it
Apple Computer is expected to announce today a switch to Intel Corp chips in it’s Macintosh computer line. This change is likely to occur next year.
The announcement is likely to be made during CEO Steve Jobs’s keynote speech at the company’s annual software conference in San Francisco. This marks the first architecture switch for the company in fourteen years. Intel's chip will reportedly debut in Apple's cheaper, low-end PCs beginning in 2006, and will later be introduced in the high-end models in 2007.
The move is likely to cost Apple millions in software rewrites, but the real loser is going to be IBM, which has been providing their current processors. Intel currently holds an 80 percent share of the PC processor market.
Officials from Apple, Intel and IBM would not speak to NewsBlog 5000 reporters. However, someone at the local Apple Store asked us to leave if we weren’t buying anything.
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
