I can remember when we first saw an Intel-based iMac in the office. Our jaws dropped when we saw how fast the thing booted up. Here is a consumer iMac, parked right next to a dual G5, and it just left that machine in the dust.
It was at that point that we knew our PowerPC machines were not long for the office. This has come to pass, as we all use Intel Macs and the PowerPC Macs are used as test machines only.
But I wasn’t so sure that those newfangled Intel Macs were going to catch on. After all, up to that point, Intel was the enemy. It was almost traitorous to consider anything other than a PowerPC powered Mac, right?
Well, I was dead wrong. Apparently Mac aficionados have embraced Intel as their own. According to the stats provided by the Omnigroup, a whopping 83.5 percent of their customers are using Intel-based Macs.
Excluding the new Mac users, which seem to be coming over in droves (Thanks, Microsoft!), that seems to mean that many of you die hard Mac users have dropped your PowerPC machines for Intel Macs.
I knew that eventually people would switch, but I didn’t think it would be this fast.
See, this is why I don’t gamble.