It was rumored for the last week or so…but today it was official

IBM has left the personal computer industry that it helped pioneer waaaaay back when. If you haven’t read about it yet… here’ s the link to CNN’s article on the sale. If I were a windows user, this might have more impact on me..but.. as long as big blue keeps making the PowerPC chip.. I’m not overly concerned about what they do with the rest of their business. I’m just surprised that it wasn’t Gateway, or Acer, or one of the other money losing PC companies that sold out first. Giving IBM credit though, this is a smart move for them business wise, the margin on desktops/laptops is very small…this will let them make more money off of servers/software/chips/etc… which is good, because then they can put more money into R&D and make faster Power series chips..which eventually become PowerPC chips for faster Macs…

It’ll be interesting to see if any other PC manufacturer’s take this way out of the game…