Watch Steve Jobs' keynote speech at WWDC'05.
I can't believe the they think this is a good move, they've just put themselves into direct competition with Microsoft and Dell.
Update: The Register has more, and of course Slashdot has the story...
Update: Damien Barrett looks to be the first to press with a comparison of Mac OS X running on PowerPC and Intel hardware. The results don't look good, I think we have to cross our fingers for some optimisation somewhere down the line before Mac OS X on Intel gets released into the wild...
Update: The numbers seem to have disappeared from Damien's site. I guess either he figured out they were way off base, got cold feet about publishing, or someone put pressure on him to remove them?
Update: More recent reports seem to indicate that Mac OS X may actually runs faster on the Intel boxes than on equivalent Power PC hardware. Perhaps the initial reports were from non-optimised installations?
It seems that the comparison is taken down. How bad were the numbers and what exactly was compared?
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