Re: Median Income $100,000
"Whichever way you look at that, Intel is a good company to have a job at."
Yes, but. I know Apple isn't as big as the windows base, but they've shown that at a certain point bringing out their own processors wasn't insurmountable. Others may follow.
Dave at EEVblog just released a video where he was showing some surplus optometrist gear he purchased. A couple of the units ran on XP. These days it can be much simpler to operate that sort of equipment on a custom distribution of Linux that is transparent to the user. It's not like this equipment will be upgraded so it runs on W7, 10, etc. Besides maintenance releases for a couple of new features and bug fixes is about all they'll get. Dedicated hardware like that is replaced after a period of time so Windows isn't a benefit which can mean that an Intel processor isn't necessary.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
