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Old February 5th, 2006, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by dmetzcher
I actually hate the terms "Intel Mac", "MacTel", and "MacIntel", and prefer "Intel-based Mac". Intel really has nothing at all to do with the machine. It's just the chip. I can't wait until they are all Intel-based, and the PowerPC machines have long faded, so we can just refer to them as Macs.
Those were the names floating around after the Intel announcement. So I was kind of glad they decided not to include the Intel name.

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Originally Posted by dmetzcher
As far as AMD is concerned (and this is way off-topic, I know), I hope they do start putting their chips in the Macs after a while. A company like Intel should not have so much power.
Well, since were now on the x86 road map, that could be a possibility,
maybe in the high end PowerMac er I mean Mac Pro Systems.
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