<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>