Linked by David W. Kuhn on Fri 10th Jun 2005 16:34 UTC
Was it Palol Rossetti that one said, "People in glass house shouldn't throw stones?" Push away the Intel this, the Pentium-M that, or perhaps the ability to use the Dual Core Pentium 4, Apple has a much bigger challenge ahead of them. For years, they have been throwing down the MHz myth and now? They are sleeping with the "enemy" according to PowerPC zealots. 
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Apple was and is right to point out that MHz is not the measure of performance. Right now I would prefer a G5 from a performance stand point. But the Pentiums blow away the G4 and that is all that apple can put in a laptop.
Intel offers apple an opertunity to get better performance in their bread and butter (PowerBook) line, and will not up the high end systems until 2 years from now when intel will have closed the gap (this is apple's bet).
This also has the side effect of making "swithers" more likely as they will be able to buy a mac and in the rare event that they do not like OS X they can install windows. Intel has a lot of positives for apple, and because OS X is cross platform then they can continue to produce PowerPC systems if conditions change to make that more desirable.
Apple may have found the ultimate position - complete control.