En ese artículo el autor, comentando las dificultades que tendría Apple si decidía pasarse a Intel, decía que:
The biggest of which is, simply, software compatibility. All existing Mac OS X software would need to be recompiled for an Intel processor architecture. A decade ago, when Apple switched the Mac from Motorola’s 680×0 family of processors to the PowerPC, the transition was nearly seamless because the PowerPC was capable of emulating the 680×0 at very reasonable speeds. But emulation is out of the question for a switch now «“ Intel chips may be faster than current PowerPC G5s, but they are nowhere near fast enough to emulate them at an acceptable speed.
My prediction: I’ll be writing about this again in 2007.
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