Dude, You’re Getting a MacBook Pro

I’m sure a million people will be linking today to the Apple announcement of Boot Camp, a new utility that now makes it both possible and easy to install Microsoft Windows XP onto an Intel-based Mac. I’m also sure most of them will put their amateur analyst hats on, and tell people what they think it means. (Most will be wrong.)

My interest in and comments on the announcement are quite a bit less global in scope.

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The Inevitable Apple on Intel Post

Since I write about Mac OS X so often, it seems mandatory to post something about Apple’s announcement this week that they would be “moving the Macintosh platform to use Intel microprocessors”:http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html. Most of the insights and big ideas about this have already been written, so my thoughts are mostly about, well, me.

Since I write about Mac OS X so often, it seems mandatory to post something about Apple’s announcement this week that they would be moving the Macintosh platform to use Intel microprocessors. Most of the insights and big ideas about this have already been written, so my thoughts are mostly about, well, me.

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