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Another Reason Why Apple Switched?

June 7th, 2005 by Steve Ivy

Chatting with Cam Barrett, he brought up a point I had not thought of… He postulates that by switching to Intel CPUs, |Apple| could be the only computer maker to be able to offer hardware that could dual-boot Mac OS X / Windows. Eeeeenteresting. Would make my life easier as a developer.

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2 Responses to “Another Reason Why Apple Switched?”

  1. Mark Morgan (June 8th, 2005 at 12:12 pm )

    I was following the keynote live with Sean McMains and immediately thought of the same thing. Sean wants VMWare instead. A humble non-programmer I know not of these things…

  2. » Dual-boot Mac/Intel boxes, cont’d | monkinetic blog archive (March 15th, 2006 at 9:49 am )

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