At WWDC '05, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs showed a Power Mac already running flawlessly (including apps like Photoshop and Excel) on a 3,2 GHz Pentium 4.
You might want to watch the webcast of Job's keynote at WWDC 2005: http://stream.apple.akadns.net/ (quicktime movie)
The reason for the transition is Intel's better roadmap, Jobs said. Intel's CPU's have less power consumption per operation and Steve Jobs seemed to be a bit pissed off because IBM wasn't able to deliver a 3 GHz G5 and a mobile G5 for the Powerbooks and iBooks.
Strange thing: why did Microsoft choose the PPC for the new XBOX if IBM has that problems? Probably Apple just doesn't want to pay Big Blue's high prices anymore?
I just hope that Apple won't lose their excellent, simple, stylish design by switching to the more mainstreamy-platform. I think it would be great to have faster, more compatible (?) and maybe a bit cheaper Mac, but some ultimate hardcore fans might hate Apple for doing this...
What do you think? Or don't you even care?
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