<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Nov 15, 2005, at 6:41 AM, Matt Kibildis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">I'm just confused by the Intel-hater arguments on here.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Don't be.� Intel is a monopolistic marketing machine, while for years AMD has been the true leader and innovator in x86 processor technology.� Earlier this year AMD filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel for predatory business practices.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Apple signed a pact with the devil when their PowerPC processor supply suddenly dried up in the face of Microsoft's Xbox 360.� IBM is no longer willing to sell them to Apple long term at the price point they had been contracted at.� We use PowerPC processors in our business so I keep in tune with this market.� If you don't have a contract on the Power4 core derivatives, the price of them takes a steep jump starting in March 2006, and I suspect this is caused by added demand for them.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Now people are saying they're going to wait for these Intel-based Macs instead of buying a PowerPC-based machine now.� IMHO this is ludicrous.� If you need the machine now, buy it, because the Intel-powered Macs aren't going to be anything all that great.� All you have to do is look over at Dell to see what they're going to be inside - Dell exclusively uses Intel cpu's, chipsets, and boards.� And Apple is not the major player here - Dell is - Dell will get it first because they're several times bigger than Apple.</DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--�</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PGP Key:�<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space">�</SPAN><A href="http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/">http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>