I was one that preferred the motorola cpu to the intel brand. Still wish they were right in there. It was usually a case of instruction sets over mhz, which is hard to explain to many people.
Apple's Tiger was running on Intel machines at the same time as the ppc equiv. (read this in this Apple guy's book on cross platform programming)
The matter of ppc machines no longer being made and people being astonished at the speed of the Intel based OS release really didn't appreciate that there wasn't any switch or anything, it was already inhouse. What they would do is develope their OS and apps on 3 platforms, all of which had to work.
Apple's OS now can run on practically any pc u care to throw together, with ~almost~ any components. Some preferred over others mind u.
It's almost at a stage where if nix can run on it, so can an Apple emblem.
A big misconception by those who may not appreciate the differences in requirement on the component basis - Leopard doesn't use Directx
It has the only version of Word that can keep up with my typing.
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