Much has been made of the recent announcement that Apple is going to start using Intel CPUs. For the most part people think that this is either pretty cool, or no big deal, depending on where you sit.

Many people seem to think that, particularly with the advent of the new Mac Mini, this may cause more people who were previously staunch Windows users to consider moving over to Apple. The thinking goes like this: the Mac Mini is a box much like the boxes which Windows people are used to buying - you buy a box, and you add on your own monitor, keyboard, mouse, and printer. And it’s priced to compete with Windows boxes.

Now in addition to familiarity of form, there is familiarity of name. Windows users will get not only the same familiar form factor, but the name Intel inside.

Others think that this whole thing is a tempest in a teapot, and no big deal.

However, there are a few people who see neither - instead what they see is a possible death knell for the Linux…

[As Apple and Intel Get in Bed to Create a New Apple Intel Machine, is Linux Left Out in the Cold, Continued]