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Old 11-26-2005, 12:08 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
The operating system bridges the gap between the CPU and applications. When Apple switches to Intel, they will have to rewrite their OS to talk with the new CPU, but the programs themselves will still work with the OS the same way regardless. No worries there.
I guess the concern there would be, if their OS is written for the new Intel CPU, wouldn't there be issues for updates for OS updates for the older CPU's? eg. possible bugs in the updates for older processors?

If there are no concerns... I'm leaning heavily towards the iBook right now.
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