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Rumor: iPhone may get x86 processor, and pigs might fly

by Mike Schramm (Mar 12th, 2008)

The Inquirer isn't just counting their chickens before they hatch -- they're counting all the feathers, the chicken feet, and even the eggs of those chickens, too. When we first heard that the slide you see above (reportedly from a CeBit presentation from Intel) apparently meant that Apple was ...

Mac OS X on Beige Boxes; An Excellent Essay

by Damien Barrett (Mar 16th, 2006)

An excellent essay written by Codepoet at MacGeekery.com popped up on my news radar today: Should Apple Sell Mac OS X For Beige Boxes. And I'm shocked that at the time of this writing, its read count is only 56. This essay is too well-written and makes too many cogent points to have only been ...

eWeek: Macs with Intel chips are still safe

by Dan Pourhadi (Jan 31st, 2006)

A few days ago, eWeek posted a story (emphasis on "story") claiming rather speculatively that Apple's move to Intel chips "could open the door to more attacks against computers running the company's OS X operating system." But someone at eWeek must've fallen asleep at the helm, ...

Jumping on the bandwagon: OS X on x86! OMG!

by C.K. Sample, III (Aug 12th, 2005)

So, everyone is posting about OS X running on x86. Wired picked it up today. Our sibling blogs Engadget and DownloadSquad both beat Wired to the punch on it. It's even getting a lot of attention on digg. So, why hasn't TUAW posted about it yet? Well, I think we TUAWers are all ...