Today Apple introduced their new MacBook Pro and an update to the iMac model. These are the first two systems to use the Intel processors that Apple announced they are switching to back in June 2005.
A little history lesson. In 1978 Intel released the 8086 processor. This is the processor that “fathered” the 286/386/486 lines and Pentium lines. In the personal computer world the 8086 is a founding father . . . the George Washington of micro-processors if you will.
In today’s stock market news — the day that Apple introduces their first Intel based products — Apple stock closed at $80.86. I know that price fixing on the stock market like this would be extremely difficult, and probably impossible, but still . . . it’s almost too strange to be a coincidence.
[tags]Apple, Macintosh, Intel[/tags]
January 11th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
I saw that! One of those too good to be true moments.