For a while, you could count me among those that thought Intel was on the wrong track. They were all about the Gigahertz without addressing real concerns like real performance or energy consumption. Steve was on to something when he moved Macs over to the new platform and it wasn’t just for virtualization adding sales. Intel believes in and wants to promote its platform.
As a part of its strategy, they release development tools that aid software engineers in the task of producing quality, high performance software for that platform. Yesterday, they released a Leopard compatible update for those tools. That’s continued commitment that really shows me that Intel is proud to have Apple as a customer and wants to preserve that relationship.
So boogie on down to Intel’s product page if you write C++ or (gasp) Fortran code.
