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Originally Posted by Dave J
Pure speculation...
Jobs took the enormous risk of a 1-2 year pre-announcement of the move to Intel (thereby killing off millions in sales) because he and Intel have something up their sleeve to market NOW. (Well within the next 3 months or so.) Question is what? Will it be a PC with an Apple BIOS that runs OSX? Or something else?
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Yes and no. Apple and Intel are probably ready to launch an Intel-Mac within much less then 1-2 years. The issue is the software. OSX might already run fine on x86, all the other major software manufacturers will have to be ready for it, otherwise the machine is useless. Hence the big margin.
Which is also why the low-end macs are likely to be Intel-ed first. They don't require much in the way of difficult to port third party software, basic OSX and iLife stuff will do just fine for most Mini and eMac users.