Intel GM has "religious experience," buys a Mac

Hexus has an interview with Pat Gelsinger, Intel's GM of their Digital Enterprise Group, in which he describes cro ing "the religious boundary" by purchasing a Mac. Note how the interviewer reacts and grimaces around 1:41 when Pat dro the bomb, and how he has to interrupt Pat to a ounce his newfound "Mac fa oy" status. Pat also mentio he's buying a second for his wife, along with a copy of the upcoming Windows Vista and Parallels Desktop, of course.

This is a really interesting statement to hear from someone so high up on a busine ladder, e ecially since he's ecifically ending the money to buy Parallels, i tead of using A le's free but workflow-intruding Boot Camp. Pat joi other busine notables - like the recent CIO who picked Mac OS X after comparing to Linux and Windows for a month - in voicing their fondne for A le's OS, even while the big fruit seems to be ending most (if not all) of their marketing on advertising to the home creative crowd.

I'd link the actual interview, but it seems almost the entire Hexus site is done in Flash (grrrr). As of this writing, the interview is at the top of their list.

[via Macworld UK]