Nareg Karaguezian

Last year’s WWDC keynote, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, released the ground-shattering news that during June of 2006, all Apple computers will be built on the new Intel processors, thus replacing the IBM PowerPC chip. The main reason behind this announcement was the fact that Apple needed a chip that was fast and used less power. They needed a company like Intel to allow them how to deliver the demanding speeds that PowerPC could not. Along with this main announcement from last year, Steve delivered his products even earlier when he made the announcement at the 2006 Mac World Expo. The new line of PowerBook replacement, called MacBook Pro, will be shipped in February, and will feature the new dual core Intel chip. The iMac model will also be available on this chip and they have promised that in the second quarter Apple will release the new Intel chip on the... (more)