Comfortable Disappearance

I found a pretty interesting article at the San Francisco chronicle in which the author goes to great lengths to say that it doesn’t matter that Apple computer has moved to Intel chips rather than their previous PowerPC chips which were built by IBM and Motorola. He quotes several individuals he found on the street around San Francisco whom say that it doesn’t matter how their computers work.

This guy should seriously not be writing about technology if he doesn’t understand the importance of the move to Intel chips from the PowerPC processors. First of all, all operating systems (i.e. Microsoft Windows, Linux, MacOSX) are built based upon something called operating codes, which are programmed into the hardware of each and every processor. Also, each processor’s operating codes are different. So, Intel’s op-codes differ from the PowerPC chips. Actually, it’s quite likely that a new Apple with an Intel processor could run Windows. In fact, I think I’m going to email this guy a link to this very article. It’s kind of techy, but it makes A LOT of difference which processor Apple is using, and some of this the general consumer needs to know, not just us nerdy-types

This is a very nerdy rant, for which I apologize, but such are the things that interest me on occassion.