News quote from Slashdot:

According to C|Net, Apple has officially decided to drop IBM, and will use Intel processors starting in their '06 line of systems. This change was rumored last month. The announcement is expected Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, at which Chief Executive Steve Jobs is giving the keynote speech." From the article: "Apple successfully navigated a switch in the 1990s from Motorola's 680x0 line of processors to the Power line jointly made by Motorola and IBM. That switch also required software to be revamped to take advantage of the new processors' performance, but emulation software permitted older programs to run on the new machines

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We're going to find out in a few hours about the speculation.

But to be quite honest, I couldn't care less who's parts they end up using. As long as it means Better Faster and more Stable Macs in the future, I'm all for it 130%.

Mac Zealots and shareholders are the ones who should really be worrying about all this. The rest of us should just sit back and enjoy the prospect of better Macintosh Computers.

actually the last time mac switched architectures for it's processors it did effect the enduser, just like it probably will this time with higher priced macs...

Well it's confirmed, Apple are switching to Intel. Total transition is estimated for 2007. Apple has been secretly developing with Intel for about 5 years alongside PPC. All demos have actually been run on an Intel based machine. So processors and motherboards from Intel are to be expected from the end of next year.

You can check out some info at Apple. Press Release. & here. News.com

Does that mean that a mac could "In theory" run windows programs w/o an emulator (god that would be awsome, United Processors and Mac OS 11 having the ability to run windows programs..suddenly Mac would dominate again..) :confused:

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ohh yea i hard about that on yahoo i was like WHOA hahahaha but i think that intel is a really reliable company and yea :]

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Yeah! Intel is pretty good when it comes to its motherboards.

well i prefer Intel because all 3 of my labtops at home run it and like its very trustworthy uhmm i love the intel centrino mobile technology
its way better then having to carry a "network card" around

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Intel Centrino? I wish I had that on my desktop PC!

ohh uhmm thats only for labtops its like a built in wireless network card so it makes wifi-ng alot easier

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