RasheqRahman » chips http://www.rasheqrahman.com Tidbits from a life. Online. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:29:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wither Wintel? http://www.rasheqrahman.com/2005/06/05/wither-wintel/ http://www.rasheqrahman.com/2005/06/05/wither-wintel/#comments Sun, 05 Jun 2005 04:01:29 +0000 Rasheq http://www.rasheqrahman.com/2005/06/05/wither-wintel/ Word from CNET that Apple will “officially” announce on Monday that it is dumping IBM’s chips for Intel’s processors in future machines.

This got me thinking. What will happen to the epithet Wintel that Mac users used to hurl at Windows users? Is Mactel around the corner? If both operating systems share the same processor family what will Mac and Windows geeks have to argue about into the wee hours of the morning?

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