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Apple’s announcement in June that it would begin using Intel chips took the computing world by surprise. The design-savvy company opted to begin using Intel chips in 2006, mostly because of Intel’s expertise in manufacturing low-power chips. Participants in the Apple Developer Connection recently received a developer’s kit that allows them to test their OS X code on Macs fitted with Intel chips, now increasingly known as “MacIntels.” The kit was enabled with security features to prevent others from installing --OS X on non-Macintosh x86 boxes.