On 7 Jun 2005, at 2:29 pm, Chris Olson wrote: > This marriage with Intel is the most inconceivable thing I've ever > seen. Anybody who knows anything at all knows that if you want > performance on x86 you go to AMD. Is Steve Jobs a personal friend > with Paul Otellini or something? I can't see any other reason for it. In the keynote, he makes the case based on _future_ developments. After watching the keynote presentation, I'm not worried at all. I'm pretty sure I'll be buying at least one more G5 before the transition is complete. OS X has been running on Intel for as long as it's been running on PPC so what? It's a business/engineering decision. Why all this gnashing of teeth and hand wringing emotion from so many? It's just a chip FFS! All the best, Tom