Friday, October 14, 2005

Hallelujah!

Why Mac switching to Intel chips could be good news.

And it is likely that the good side effect (Macs able to run Windows and Mac OS) will indeed happen.

I know that this is old news, but I felt compelled to blog about it today.

Of course, it would make sense for Apple to let its computers run Windows, and it makes equally as much sense to make certain that other computers can't run the Mac OS. That's because unlike Microsoft, Apple is a hardware and software company, and they (I assume) make most of their money on their hardware. So anyhting that makes their hardware expendable would hyrt the bottom line, but allowing people to run Windows on their Macs would probably expand their market (e.g. to people who would like to be able to run Mac OS but who need to run Windows for some programs and don't want two computers) and would, at worst, reduce their software sales (and probably not even that, as most people who buy a dual-OS computer presumably wantto run Mac software too).

That is all.

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