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 have been saying all along that the G4 and the G5 is better than the Pentium 4. While debatable, Apple said that they are switching to Intel not because of Pentium 4 but for their future roadmap. And their future roadmap is dominated by Pentium D and Pentium M - rather good products, quite unlike Pentium 4.
Though so far Apple haven't announced which model of Pentium they are using, following their vague timeline, I must say - Pentium 4 doesn't seem to be a major part of that.
Hypocrite? Hypocrite is only if Apple switches, uses the same Pentium 4's it condemn and calls it good.
Plus, while previously Apple's marketing have to deal with selling the processor and the platform itself, using a commodity processor frees Apple from marketing the Pentiums. They don't need to try convincing people that the Pentiums they know well is not as good as the processors they are using simply because they are using Pentiums. And since Apple's performance would be pretty much, more or less, the same as other PC makers with more direct comparisons that can be made, you would see less and less of those benchmarks on Apple sites.
If zealots decide to rough it out for a year more years on PowerPC - their loss. They would soon find more and more applications won't run on their beloved platform as over the years there is less and less justification to put out fat binaries.