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Old 25-05-2005, 03:59 PM   #10 (permalink)
mail2and
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firstly... apple never made processors... in the early days, they sourced their PPC chips from Motorola and then IBM eventually. These companies even formed the AIM consortium, which is now owned by Intel. I think Intel is planning to enter the PPC arena too... I don't think apple will move to x86 anytime soon... considering the kind of costs involved in porting MAC OS X and the thousands of applications..

Also apple has a hardware division Introducing mac os x for x86 would kill its hardware sales
i re-quote myself...
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