Following a weekends worth of rumors (NYTimes, CNN, WIRED, The Register #1 #2 #3, Google, Engadget #1 #2, Gizmodo, CNet #1 #2, and ZDNet… as you can see, the major news sites are all posting about it) Apple Computers admitted that they are going to make the slow change from using the PowerPC processors of IBM/Motorola to Intel processors. Today was huge for Apple Computers when Steve Jobs, in his yearly WWDC (WordWide Developer Conference), announced the progress of the current PPC chips wasn’t fast enough to keep up with the company’s strive for more powerful machines.

When discussing his old vision for the PowerPC line of processors, he thought they’d originally be able to go up-to-and-beyond 3GHz:

“I stood up two years ago and promised this (3.0G PowerMac), and we haven’t been able to deliver.” Steve says it’s bigger than that, though. No roadmap for the future based on PowerPC – they can’t see a future”
– Courtesy of Engadget

In a remarkable show of fore-sight, Jobs then let out that Apple has been planning a way for quick architecture change for many years in the off-chance that their supply of and demand for the PowerPC chips falls below levels of their liking.

“Every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for Intel for the past 5 years. Here comes the demo!”
“As a matter of fact, this system I’ve been using here…the keynote’s been running on a P4 3.6GHz all morning”
– Courtesy of Engadget

I look forward to the day when my AMD (Intel x86 compatible) processor is able to run the Apple operating system. It would, honestly, be my dream come true: who wouldn’t love the power and stability of an Apple OS mixed with the geekiness of a *NIX OS. The only concern is hardware compatibility and stability issues brought about by allowing just about any hardware to work with the OS. This may be one reason Apple may pick the Itanium processors as opposed to the Pentium line from Intel. I’m thinking this will also allow the hardware costs to be lowered for Apple which will allow the end-user costs to be decreased as well when purchasing the “built for Apple OS” hardware.

I’m interested to see what happens with this in the next few years.

To keep myself busy (and to earn a little cash on the side) when I’m not hunting for an apartment or doing stuff to make my move to Tucson easier, I’ve been doing yard work around the house. I’ve been quite busy landscaping and building stuff around the yard for the last week or so. To give you an idea of how much work I’ll be doing, we ordered 4.5 tons of rock, 3 tons of mulch, and another ton of dirt for various projects around the yard.

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I graduated this past Monday. I’m done. No more grad school. No more Lehigh. Done!

The finality of that statement is weighing down on me. I’m done. It’s hard to say and even harder to hear.

I won’t get to see the friends that I’ve made in the last five years as often as I’ve grown accustom. It’s a hard thing, having to “move onâ€? and “grow upâ€? after being used to the same type of life and taking the proximity of my friends for granted. We are all done.

I’m off to Arizona; some of my friends are moving to California, some to Rhode Island, a few to Texas, a few are staying near Bethlehem to work. We’re all moving on and starting our “adultâ€? lives. This stage of our lives is done, only to be re-lived in thoughts and recollections; old “war storiesâ€? in our minds.

The future is an adventure; even though this part of the journey is done, another part is waiting to begin. In a way, the finality of this part only makes the uncertainty of the next part all the more exciting. I’ll have my own apartment (shared with Lauren, of course), my own job, my own schedule, and my own life. I get to chose now.

In many ways, I’m not really done with my learning after all; this is more the beginning of a new chapter in which I dictate what I learn as opposed to my professors and teachers and people around me.

I’m moving to somewhere new and foreign to me. I’m just starting! More responsibility. More freedom. New beginnings. Now!

Ready or not, here comes life. Beginnings. Endings. New friends. Old Friends. Life goes on and endings are really just new ways of saying that you are starting on new paths through life’s adventure.

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I’m still not sure how I got linked to THIS blog/project website (I suspect through links in Engadget somehow), but it’s one of the coolest websites I’ve been to recently. The site is run/maintained by the artist, John Schimmel, who is in a program at NYU for Interactive Telecommunications. A few of the projects of interest include the Fireflies and the Coffee Table.

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