Originally Posted by Kewl X5

Wow....everything has come full circle. Apple announced that they are going to abandon IBM power pc chips in favor for Intel chips.

Apparently, Steve Jobs designed OS X to also run Intel chips and have been planning this for the past 5 years.

Unfortunatley, the IBM/Motorola can't keep up with Intel in terms of power and speed and price especially CPUs for laptops.

Also, now that laptop sales are starting to surpass desktop, having a CPU that doesn't generate as much heat and uses less battery power, etc. is very important. Intel has IBM/Motorola beat in that department.

So this sounds like a "win-win" situation for Mac users. Now, their future Macs (as early as 2006) will have Intel chips that will run OS X and most likely have much better Windows emulator (heck they could make a dual-boot OS X/Windows system).

Apple ditching PowerPC chips for Intel!!