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Is this article serious? "If Apple releases OS X for x86 style architecture then any computer currently running Windows can now run OS X." You can't be serious? There is NO way that Apple could even possibly deal with driver support for this to ever happen. Just because the OS works on x86 doesn't mean that the OS supports your video card, sound card, etc. etc. Apple just doesn't have the system to handle this as Microsoft does. Addtionally, this makes the assumption that Apple would want their OS running on anything but their hardware (I'm doubting this). "The architecture that IBM is using currently has better support/protection against overflows." What about NX support? "Intel charges more for their chips than IBM does." How do you know? Have you seen the prices for some Dell machines? Intel doesn't charge retail customers the same as OEM customers. "IBM has got the whole dual core/dual chip thing down." Where? Are you talking about gaming console CPUs? IBM may have figured this out but they sure haven't let Apple have it or those 3Ghz CPUs Jobs was ranting about years ago. "Intel has spent the last decade on Itanium, which unfortunately, was a complete flop." Gee I guess the Pentium-M was also a huge flop? The Pentium-M may be 100% the reason for the switch to Intel -- Intel's Pentium-M requires less power and produces less heat. Haven't see a G5 in a laptop yet. "They seem to have reached the speed limit for their chips." This is silly. Using this argument IBM is just as bad -- where's that 3Ghz chip from IBM that was suppose to be here already? "Intel and AMD continue to refine their designs while IBM is out there making new designs" Come on, if you're a computer engineer you KNOW this isn't the case. Modern CPUs are too large to reinvent the wheel every couple years. Both Intel and IBM don't ever start from scratch, nor should they.