Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

I saw these items in my RSS feeds today:

This afternoon when I clicked on the links to read those stories, they were gone. What happened? I was excited for a moment to read that OS X ran on quad-processor systems, and that Apple had built one. Were those stories withdrawn because of inaccuracies, or because they revealed something Apple would rather keep quiet for now?

I watched yesterday with a bit of surprise as Steve announced Apple’s transition to Intel processors. Such a transition is a rumor that has popped up repeatedly for years now with no factual basis, and even this year’s iteration was based upon hearsay and included no specifics nor named any reliable source.

Those of us who doubted the rumors had good reason to. Read the rest of this entry »