I personally think that Macs are eating into the Linux crowd. Haven't you noticed that in the past year or two how the buzz over Ubuntu has dwindled, and now all the "cool" developers run around with macs? I wonder what those official stats are.
This dude is a little late. Macs have been interesting since the release of OS X and have been <i>really</i> interesting since OS X 10.3 when things finally started to speed up an stabalize.
<i>"That means that when not rendering 3-D graphics, [Larrabee] can also add a few dozen processing cores to pump up performance in all regards."</i><p>This statement is incredibly naive. Let's not get swept away on a wave of hype.