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Ever since Apple announced last year that they will switch to using Intel processors<\/a>, the industry has been alive with speculation as to which Mac model will switch first. My view is a bit different – Apple make fantastic-looking PCs, and if they have Intel hardware I ought to be able to run a version of Windows<\/a> on one. Or, perhaps I could run Mac OS X<\/a> in a Virtual PC on Windows (probably not, as I guess it will look for an Apple trusted platform module)?<\/p>\n

On the way to work today, I was listening to episode 36 of the This Week in Tech podcast<\/a> (incidentally, one of my favourite podcasts – even if it is a little US-centric) which briefly discusses the possibility of a new emulator for Windows applications on a Mac (not like Wine for Linux<\/a>, which is API-based – you will need a copy of Windows in order to make this work, in a similar manner to running Linux applications on Solaris using BrandZ<\/a>), so maybe I really can have the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n

All I need to know now is, with the industry finally starting the push to 64-bit technology, will the new Intel Macs use cheap 32-bit processors (an early report from ThinkSecret suggested 3.6GHz Pentium 4s<\/a>), or some new 64-bit dual-core beast? With CES<\/a> taking place this week (Intel has already made some major announcements about its brand, identity and technology direction<\/a>) and MacWorld<\/a> next week (surely there must be some news there about Intel Macs), maybe we’ll get an answer soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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