I suggest before anyone gets their knickers to wet about Apple and Intel please read the following articles. http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA602292.html and http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA603431.html Appears like normal ongoing dialogue for Intel licensing Firewire in their future comm motherboard interfaces. Don On 23-May-05, at 7:21 PM, Brett Conlon wrote: > It could be Apple's way of putting a firecracker up IBM's glute's to > get > their chip manufacturing kinks ironed out! ;-D > > Coj > > > > Randy B.Singer <randy at macattorney.com> > > Michael Winter said: > >> There are all kinds of reasons for Apple to be talking to Intel about >> "chips". Many more plausible IMO than about primary CPUs for a new >> breed of Mac. But that doesn't make headlines and create buzz. > > > All true. > > But since Apple is in a qunadry about processors just now, the fact > that > they are chatting with the world's largest maker of PC processors sure > is > interesting. > > > > Randy B. Singer > Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions) > > Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting > http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html >