Confirmed: ApTel vs. WinTel... Uh, I mean Apple on Intel

Rumors indicate that weather reports from Hades predict unseasonable snow. Steve Jobs has announced that the next generation of Apple Computers will... will... run on Intel chips. Ironically, this comes only months after Microsoft announced their new XBox would run on PowerPC chips.

Apple® announced plans to deliver models of its Macintosh® computers using Intel® microprocessors by this time next year, and to transition all of its Macs to using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007. Apple previewed a version of its critically acclaimed operating system, Mac OS® X Tiger, running on an Intel-based Mac® to the over 3,800 developers attending CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote address. Apple also announced the availability of a Developer Transition Kit, consisting of an Intel-based Mac development system along with preview versions of Apple’s software, which will allow developers to prepare versions of their applications which will run on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

For those who may not be familiar with the Apple Macintosh culture, this is the equivilent of Al Gore announcing a presidential run with Jeb Bush as his vice president. Actually, it might be more like having Howard Dean agreeing to be the vice presidential candidate for Rush Limbaugh. Or... Well... you get the idea. I am simply not sure what to make of the news. As Ward said earlier, I would rather they had gone to AMD... but then I have stock in Apple and AMD and none in Intel.