Hexus has an interview with Pat Gelsinger, Intel's GM of their Digital Enterprise Group, in which he describes crossing "the religious boundary" by purchasing a Mac. Note how the interviewer reacts and grimaces around 1:41 when Pat drops the bomb, and how he has to interrupt Pat to announce his newfound "Mac fanboy" status. Pat also mentions he's buying a second for his wife, along with a copy of the upcoming Windows Vista and Parallels Desktop, of course.This is a really interesting statement to hear from someone so high up on a business ladder, especially since he's specifically spending the money to buy Parallels, instead of using Apple's free but workflow-intruding Boot Camp. Pat joins other business notables - like the recent CIO who picked Mac OS X after comparing to Linux and Windows for a month - in voicing their fondness for Apple's OS, even while the big fruit seems to be spending most (if not all) of their marketing on advertising to the home creative crowd.
I'd link the actual interview, but it seems almost the entire Hexus site is done in Flash (grrrr). As of this writing, the interview is at the top of their list.
[via Macworld UK]
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12-01-2006 @ 5:01PM
Mark Rickert said...
Very cool information, but the camera angles, the sound, and the editing are all pretty horrid. There's nothing aesthetically pleasing about that video.
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12-01-2006 @ 5:49PM
John B. said...
I hope he plans on buying Vista Ultimate if he wants to run it in Parallels since Microsoft was classy enough to preclude the Home editions from running in virtualization.
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12-01-2006 @ 6:09PM
Dave Barnes said...
The hiss in the background is the sound of Michael Dell peeing in his pants.
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12-01-2006 @ 6:33PM
David Chartier said...
"The hiss in the background is the sound of Michael Dell peeing in his pants."
ROFL, Dave. Almost spit out my Heineken. Once we get the star system back, you get one.
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12-01-2006 @ 7:55PM
Virtuous said...
Dell and HP must be happy they both now buy AMD processors in addition to Intel processors.
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12-01-2006 @ 10:06PM
Doug McIntosh said...
Wow! It would have been one thing if he said "Yeah, I got a Mac." But, when he said he's "switching" his WIFE...!
Brave man! Bravo, Mr. Gelsinger!
Welcome to the PARTY! (The "SOCIAL" is over there, somewhere...)
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1-15-2007 @ 6:43AM
Nick Young said...
I just made the switch myself. I plan to blog the experience for 365 days to document my experience with Apple. Come join me at http://keynote2keynote.blogspot.com!
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