After News.com's Friday report that Apple is moving to Intel/x86, the respected publication Wall Street Journal and now NYTimes threw their reputation behind the rumor. Many people still remain skeptical, but I personally believe that the time is right for Apple to switch to x86-64, for two main reasons:
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Apparently Apple offered a job to Pavel Machek, reported to work on the linux kernel, seeking in his words an "ACPI & BIOS person" Which is kinda sorta x86 specific :-D.
Apparently Apple offered a job to Pavel Machek, reported to work on the linux kernel, seeking in his words an "ACPI & BIOS person" Which is kinda sorta x86 specific :-D.
Ars article : http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050603-4970.html
Livejournal of Pavel Machek http://www.livejournal.com/users/pavelmachek/7323.html
For the record, I still don't believe it will happen :-)