Re: Mike and Ward, what next?

In article <1118159835.734971.182750@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Erik" <groups@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> ward mcfarland wrote:
> > Jobs makes it sound like he has a smooth transition all mapped out,
but
> > this is a much bigger change than 68k->PPC.
> >
> > Jobs generously offers to sell mid and upper tier developers a 4.6 GHz
> > P4 Mac for $995 (plus $500 for Select member****p).  So we need yet
> > another machine on hand for developing and testing.
> 
> At the very least, the transition is intended to be over a 2 year
> period.  So until about, say, June '06, Intel Macs would be in the
> minority.

Uh. Until about June 2006 Intel Macs will be essentially non-existent in 
the user base. The transition starts roughly a year from now and is 
announced to take about 18 months for the whole line. I don't think 
Intel makes up even a simple majority of the installed based until 
mid-2008 and that's aggressive.

G

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