It’s been a 12 months since rumors started to swirl that Apple would sever its ties with Intel, and some months since that transition grew to become official. Apple has launched a couple of Apple silicon/M1 Macs already, and there’s extra in the pipeline. Intel has responded by releasing anti-Mac advertisements with Justin Long, the star of Apple’s “Get a Mac” advertisements from the 2000s.
It begs the query: What will Intel appear like with out Apple as a buyer? And why are they attacking Macs? In this episode of IDG TechTalk, Macworld government editor Michael Simon and Computerworld government editor Ken Mingis be a part of Juliet Beauchamp to debate what comes subsequent for Intel, together with how Intel-powered PCs examine to Apple silicon-based Macs.
Michael Simon has been masking Apple since the iPod was the iWalk. His obsession with know-how goes again to his first PC—the IBM Thinkpad with the lift-up keyboard for swapping out the drive. He’s nonetheless ready for that to return again in type tbh.