Regular K

So, it’s official. Apple’s switching to Intel. Everybody’s been making a big fuss about it all, but I really don’t see how it’s going to affect the end user all that much. After all, I’m sure that they’re going to only allow Mac OS X to be run on special Apple hardware, as usual. I doubt you’ll be allowed to just run it on any old PC. You won’t get the easy upgradeability that the PC world has to offer. So to the average user, it really won’t make much of a difference. The only thing that might be affected is price - it’s possible that the prices will lower, as a result of using more common hardware. Who knows?

Some have asked me if I’m angry that I bought my Mac just months before this switch. Honestly, I really don’t see how this really affects me. It’s going to be at least two years until Apple fully moves all their products to Intel processors. And after that, I can’t see them supporting the legacy PPC computers for any less than three years, as there are millions of people who have supported Apple’s PPC computers for years. It would be suicide to shaft their dedicated install base like that. And five years from now, my PowerBook will be obsolete and it will be time to get a new computer anyways, at which point I can purchase an Intel Mac.

So in short - whatever. I really wanted to hear about some more interesting things at the WWDC, like some new products or software. For whatever reason, this announcement doesn’t excite me very much.

In other Apple-related news, my boss gave me his old Bluetooth mouse. It works perfectly fine for me and I haven’t had any problems with it at all. It still had the original batteries in them, so I’m guessing that he didn’t try it out for too long before he gave up on it. The scrolling is incredibly smooth. I could just scroll all day and be happy.