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Apple on Intel by January?

It sounds as though the first Apple x86 based systems may show up as early as January of 2006. This means interesting things for those that write open source software. I've seen discussions that when…

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Avery J. Parker

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It sounds as though the first Apple x86 based systems may show up as early as January of 2006. This means interesting things for those that write open source software. I've seen discussions that when the move to x86 happens it will make it easier to port such projects as wine to the Apple platform.