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click here. RE[2]: And what if... by r_a_trip on Fri 27th Nov
2009 10:49 UTC in reply to "RE: And what if..." Member since:
...could have an impact on Apple's brand name and reputation.  I
really do not understand why all the negativeness towards Apple
protecting their IP, especially from so called "journalists".  I
can't speak for all of us, but I know why Apple has lost a lot
of the magic for me.  Back when Apple was on PPC and their
marketing machine (and the Apple community) was going full force
in bombarding x86 as slow, cumbersome, inferior and boring, one
could almost suspend disbelieve when one heard that a 800 MHz
PPC was somehow magically soooo much better than a 1.2 GHz Intel
processor. Most computer users never touched an actual PPC
machine, so there was a huge lack of hands on knowledge to make
a fair comparison. Their exotic architecture protected them.
Then the bombshell dropped that Apple was going to use x86
processors. That is w