What nobody saw coming.

It will be all over the newspaper headlines tomorrow, (or perhaps just the covers of the techie section). Mark my words.
Only once before has something this strange been done by Apple, and that occurrence was the porting of iTunes to Windows.
Now, it seems that what people have been both wondering about and fearing for the past decade has come true.

Apple and Intel have partnered.

Some saw it as inevitable since the swap to IBM's processor line and the short-lived G5, others (me included) never even gave it a thought, but as announced today on the WWDC 2005 webcast from Apple's website, Apple will be making a transition from the PowerPC line, to the Intel processor line over the next two years.

Now, after watching Steve Jobs present his usual keynote address, the benefits instantly become obvious (and it has absolutely nothing to do with the supposed 'reality distortion field' people are yammering about these days. ;) ). Apple has had trouble with IBM since the start, and unfortunately, promises like a dual 3.0GHz G5 and the elusive G5 Powerbook never showed up. But, as demonstrated by Jobs on stage, live in front of over 1,000 people, the 'About This Computer' window on his demo machine did indeed say that Mac OS X was running on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4.

Bizzarre huh? I thought so.. I'm waiting to see what all my friends think after they find out..

Jimzip :D