IT Garage wonders if the x86 transition might be beneficial to OS X in the home user market. My hope is that adding another x86 platform might cause vendors to release more information about their hardware so Linux and other OSS drivers might have better access to drivers.
I think their right on about the change part though. Hopefully, it will cause vendors to open more of their standards so that they can the move will be easier. (Its pretty easy already). Once people get used to dealing with change more often theyll likely be less hesetant. Thats why geeks are able to switch from Linux to OS X to Windows or whatever several times a day.
Most users haven’t learned this skill because they’ve only had access to one operating system in their day to day lives.