Top 10 Apple changes for the transition to Intel CPUs

Post by **bani** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:32 pm

7. MACINT~1
6. Programs now download and install themselves without asking the user (er wait, dashboard already does that

)
5. Program extension changed from .app to .exe
4. Ctrl-Cloverleaf-Del now opens a login window.
3. Two button mouse!
2. OS X is now known as OS X86
1. Poweron bong is changed to the Intel Chime

Ragnar_40k · Post by **Ragnar_40k** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:49 pm

Some of the are from M$ Windows and not from Intel (e.g. #5).

Nail · Post by **Nail** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:49 pm

“What makes a Mac a Mac isn’t the processor under the hood,” writes Walt Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal. “It’s Apple’s elegant operating system, [Mac] OS X, which won’t see major changes for 18 months, and the company’s stylish hardware designs, which it will continue to produce. When you peer at the screen of the first Intel-based Mac, it will look just like today’s PowerPC Macs, only it should run faster.”

"stylish hardware designs,"

Buy a comp cause it looks nicer, says who??
but at least they now admit macs are slow

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:04 pm

Nail wrote: Buy a comp cause it looks nicer, says who??

most of my friends, but they build their own/mod their cases