<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Well folks, the Intel - IBM debate has just been updated. As many here predicted years ago, IBM has just released a RISC chip that is capable of running rings around anything that Intel could even dream of designing - let alone manufacture. Imagine speeds exceeding 5 Ghz in a MacBook Pro! So far only for servers, but when IBM develops circuits for server machines they have a nasty habit of showing up in Personal Computers soon thereafer.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Quote from AP news wire...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><I>Delivering on its promise of a superfast server chip, IBM Corp. said Monday that its new Power6 microprocessor will go on sale next month, boasting twice the clock speed of the previous generation while consuming roughly the same amount of power. [...] In addition to raw power, the new IBM chip also has massive bandwidth - 300 gigabytes per second - which the company says can process the download of the entire iTunes music catalog, currently more than 5 million songs, in about a minute.</I></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><I><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></I></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><I>Perhaps Apple took its corporate eye off the ball just a bit too early (?)</I></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><I><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></I></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><I>jg</I></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>