Hey Apple…

Your new commercial talking about freeing up Intel processors really makes me mad. I do way more interesting things with my intel processors than purchasing music from iTunes and transferring it to my ipod. I think their life inside my computers is much more interesting than anything ever done by the average Mac user.

Macs have always been underpowered and the move to intel is, yet again, another bad processor move. Intel is stuck. They can’t put more power to the chips because they can’t keep the temperature under control.

Don’t get me wrong. I am a long-time intel bigot. My home PC is built with all-intel - motherboard, chipset, processor, network card, sound card - the works. Ask my friends who have been on the AMD bandwagon for a while how I always blame any problem they have on their non-intel proc.

But Intel made a bad choice at a fork in the processor road a few years ago with the Pentium 4 footprint. A dual-proc P4 is a little hard to come by because they elected not to lay things out in a way that makes it easy to do so. Intel’s dual-core offering isn’t 100% dual core…its dual processing behind a single bus.

So, alas, I must admit that AMD has become the forerunner. I saw the first sign of this when Intel had to license some 64bit tech from AMD. Now that we are entering the “dual core” age, guess who’s leading?

I’m now running AMD at work (after actually trying a mac), and soon the home PC - a monument to intel, will be replaced with an AMD/nvidia box.

I’m also excited about the new IBM chip, but I don’t see it making it into any computers other than IBM’s unfortunately overpriced server line.