If you could get a copy of Mac OS X, stick it inside in any PC and start running the Mac operating system, it would be really, really bad news for Apple if it ran as well as the Macintosh did. |
Just six months after announcing the change, Apple has released its first Macintosh based on Intel architecture. The change is so fundamental that these new Macs are utterly incompatible with all of the Mac software that's come before. But Apple has done a great job hiding that from the user. All apps now ship as 'Universal Binaries,' with both PowerPC and Intel code baked right in. Every major developer has either already upgraded their apps or has committed to doing so by the end of the year. |