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Will Apple's move to Intel chips impact business? Deal eventually expected to spark enterprise interest in Macs.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 20-MAR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Even though Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced last June that Macintosh computers would move to Intel chips, he surprised everyone at the mid-January Macworld Expo when he introduced the retrofitted iMac and the MacBook Pro, a laptop with the new chips, several months ahead of schedule.

"With the Mac OS X (operating system), plus Intel's latest dual-core processor under the hood, the new iMac delivers performance that will knock our customers' socks off," Jobs boasted.

Could the new Mac-tel help push Macs into the business-computing world?

Rick Chaney, owner of User Friendly in Madison, an Apple Macintosh specialist, believes it will.

"It used to be that 80% of my business was repeat Mac customers, the traditional graphic environment where people were basically doing Photoshop and Illustrator," said Chaney. "But now I'm seeing home office...

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