Re:It's all about OSX.. (Score 1)

As Apple is transforming itself into an Entertainment and Technology company, Apple has some things to change. As much as I hate the Intel move, I have to admit that on the hardware forefront Apple designs are stymied by their current processors, but it is not the current (or potential) processors that Apple had to look forward to about 2 years ago. I am sure Apple did not rest on their laurels in terms of computer design, and at the time no one was telling them anything that was concrete about processors, rather all it was they were saying back then were "proposals and sepcultaion". We all know how Apple wants to design the cutting edge, and they have shown us the lightest, fastest, smallest, computers. The Big IRON (G4 and G5) was becoming the problem. How could Apple engineer beautiful cutting edge space saving designs while their Power Macintosh series were becoming bloated wind tunnel sounding pigs requiring more specialized and expensive cooling systems. In that turn I have to say shame on you Apple, you are about a year too late to fix the problem. When you can buy a Sony VAIO R Series with a Pentium D Hyperthreading in a smaller case, lighter wieght, and a cooler (water cooled)design, then Apple starts to look like a dated bloated pig ready for slaughter. And when I can buy a 64 bit laptop that gets way better battery life than a PowerBook and with a faster system bus and better screen ..... then you know that Apple is starting to get run over. Don'get me wrong though, I am excited to see what Apple has to offer interms of hardware, and hope it doesn't disappoint. Another reason they are going Intel is due to the fact that Apple needs access to the StrongARM processor again. We all have to remember that the StrongARM was developed by Apple and graced products such as the Newton PDA and e-Mate (iBook predecessor). They sold the rights to Intel after they let the Newton division dig its own grave and lay in it. Why do they need the Intel XScale StrongARM? The new video iPod ... thats why! Anyone who can put 2 and 2 together could see this happening, but it caught me off guard for them to form an alliance with Intel for all the Mac future Mac hardware. As far as Mac OS X goes, great I love the Mac OS, and the Mac OS is a big reason I compute. But if the OS starts to outshine the hardware, and the accessories (iPod) start to outshine the hardware, then why should I buy another Mac? In the end I have to remark that a video iPod would be cool and I can't wait to get one .... but ignoring the personal computers that Apple had dominated in terms of performance, is simply offedning. For years it has been the Apple users who bought Apple computers that has always been the "Apple" of their eyes ... now, I feel second fiddle with a Mac that is know going to go through an identity crisis in the next 2 years. As long as they don't disappoint and realize that the iPod crowd isn't the only people buying their products these days ... I will keep buying them and using them.