I bet you could recast the whole Greeks vs Romans civilization clash as something very nearly resembling today’s Windows vs Mac relationship. There seems to be the Trojan horse (when Gates invested in Apple) and now, with OSX essentially cannibalizing Windows applications, we’re seeing the story come full circle (I certainly don’t see the visually [...]
…don’t look now, but sooner or later you’ll be able to run Windows applications right from within your Intel Mac’s OS. At one point, this wasn’t exactly obvious. Fortunately, the independent market can respond faster than the stalwarts. Whether they’ll be cannibalized later on remains to be seen.
So Moore’s law talks about the speed of processors doubling every so often (specifics aren’t that important at the moment). Invariably, games, apps and whatnot other myriad things come along to suck up that juice necessitating upgrades, new hardware and so on. It’s essentially a personal issue, however, one that, so long as Moore’s law [...]