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I have fallen victim to a habit I never expected to surface, at least not at my age and during the summer. If anything, you’d think a college student like me, tireless in study and exhausted with working out, would not fall prey to something like this. Recently, in my efforts to get to bed and get a reasonable six or seven hours of sleep, I’ve neglected the idea that the extra hours will do me any good. So I stay up late. Generally, I am reading books or online articles and I send out my day’s worth of email.

Last night, I felt it wise of me to forget about sleep and watch the Quicktime stream of the WWDC 2005 Keynote. Yes, of course I had heard the Apple/Intel rumors. I was actually in one of my not-gonna-sleep states when the CNET article first announced the official rumblings late Saturday night. Being a viable source for technology news and recalling the previous talks of Apple & Intel, I simply trusted what I read and went to bed expecting big news at the Monday Keynote.

Thus, blah blah blah; Monday Keynote; Apple officially announces a two-year switch over to Intel processors; yadda yadda; die-hard Apple users feel “betrayed” or something of the nature; internet columnists write a myriad of articles praising, decrying, whatever. After a long day Monday, I read some of the initial reactions that night. I wasn’t in the mood, however, to watch the Keynote stream just yet, so I went to bed. Tuesday came and went, never watched the Keynote but still read more articles. Then was Wednesday with more articles with “What is Apple doing?!” and “Could this be the next Time-Warner?” ::sigh:: Oh well. Thus, last night, I finally decided to watch the Keynote for myself.

Once it was done and the stream stopped, I immediately amazed at how impressed I was by Jobs’ decision to make this move. The PowerPC line is fading and won’t stack up in the years ahead; a G5 PowerBook just would not happen if Apple tried to stick it out with IBM. Of course, I had no clue of the underlying things going on with this issues at hand, and frankly I don’t use a computer’s processor speed that intensely to necessitate top-notch performance, but I think this is a fantastic move.

I really don’t want to go into detail on this because you never know when my Apple geek inside (Geek Inside) would kick in. Sometimes that is not a pretty sight. Kind of like watching the Icarus’ bittersweet flight. Poor, poor, Icarus. At least he was ambitious.

So, I am full of anticipation for the first Macs to begin shipping with Intel processors around, as Apple affirms us, pre-WWDC 2006. If you have a fury and passion over this issue, I urge you to watch the Keynote and maybe that will soothe your ailments. If not, go buy a VAIO.

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