Linked by Craig Dooley on Wed 8th Jun 2005 19:01 UTC
With the announcement that Apple is switching to Intel, the computing world has been thrown a curve ball. Speculation will run rampant for the next year. We obviously won't know what's going to happen until it happens, but I see a bright future coming out of this. I see Apple with more headroom for the future to create better, faster designs. I see much more opportunity for the hacker community to work with this also.
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Apple's success in the competitive landscape was dependent on IBM's ability to deliver competitive chips, a company who's priority isn't desktop chips. IBM has shown they're either not dedicated to delivering Power chips that are consistently competitive in terms of speed/power, or they are just not able to.
By moving to Intel, Apple has effectively nullified the highs and lows of the Mac versus Intel speed comparisons, and they no longer have to whine to IBM about them not delivering chips.