Tech

Well, well

Repeat a rumour often enough and it'll become truth. (I think scientists call this the inductive principle.)

Apple have announced they're going to put Intel processors in the Mac. They also announced the next version of Mac OS X will be called "Leopard" and bloggers everywhere scrambled to write obvious puns about changing spots.

One thing seems clear: although the announcement has answered one question ("When?"), it raises far more. "Which Intel? IA-32? IA-64?" "What instead of OpenFirmware?" "Goodbye Mach-O?" Perhaps most worryingly, "Isn't passing arguments on the stack asking for trouble?"

Here's to an interesting couple of years. (OK, perhaps more interesting to geeks than mortals.)