call it the anti incumbency factor. call it hating the giant. fact: intel leads the world in hardware. fact: microsoft leads the world in software. mad about it? go raise your blood pressure, nothing we can do about it.

but then, do we have to do anything about it? things seem just fine to people the way they are. and sometimes it is way more trouble doing things the 'right' way, rather than the PC Windows way. so we do it the intel/MS way.

but in the meantime, the transition has just taken place. just as in, about a month ago. and G5 fans will now have to back down to second place. the fastest desktop in the world will now be the Mac Pro running Intel Xeons clocking upto 3GHz. it remains to be seen whether there will be any further development from IBM on the powerpc line. i saw this review which compares the xeon, the P4, the G5 and the athlon..... the conclusions seem to tell us that the G5 is the processor to watch, but overheating problems...

however, the other thing to watch is the OS battle which should hot up with Leopard taking on Vista with much the same hardware underneath.. and if Apple stopped their incestuous relationship with MS Office and started supporting an independant platform like.. say StarOffice, maybe the war will be fought all over again.. more power to the user!