Sorry, should have said "new" chips, I thought it was pretty obvious that sooner or later everything for their line would be moved to G5's. With the Intel announcement it is obvious that they won't be doing that. That Freescale stopped desiging a followup to the G4 seems logical to me.

Evidently, this was a hoax (perpetrated by GNAA).

I know that there was some market share talk in the first page here, but it's important to point this out:
1) when the PowerPC chip was used, starting back around '95, Apple's market share of the PC market then dropped from 10% to 5% going forward.
2) when OS-X was introduced, their share moved down from 5% to ~3% it is now.

Regardless of how well their emulation software will work w/ existing software, people are going to have to buy new software to take full advantage of the new box -- yet again.

You will also have this boxed hacked in no time flat. There's too many x86 geeks out there, just waiting.

I personally think that their market share will drop even further as a result of this move.

A report on the developer units of the Intel Macs.

It seems they are indeed different than the demo units that were on the floor following the WWDC Keynote, which used Intel motherboards. Not sure if what are in the developer boxes are standard or custom.

They're clearly not up to the standard design requirements, as there are some exposed cables etc. Not surprising, as they were put together in two weeks.

The site is loading really really slow... perhaps Apple is trying to censor them again, or perhaps they are running out of bandwidth money from all the legal fees they have incurred trying to battle Apple?

Or maybe it's because they're on the front page of Slashdot? Slashdot is even more effective at bringing down websites than Apple's lawyers.

Darn. I should have downloaded the page and pics to mirror.

The Slashdot thread is here, for anyone interested. 445 responses in the past 4 hours.

I did find someone who pasted the text of the article in his/her post.

oh- and here's a mirror.

typing as I read,

-s

Heh. Hi from OSX on my Asus S5N Centrino laptop.

That was an awful lot of work. Without Office, Outlook, and iTunes, it really doesn't do much that my G3 iBook didn't do.

Oh, well. There's 6GB of porn I'll never get back. :(

Apple needs to seriously reconsider selling OSX for ALL Intel boxes. If anyone could walk into a Bestbuy or Compusa and buy Tiger for their Dell at home it would change the way the computer industry works for many years to come.

Sadly it would seem like they are too close to Microsoft to ever make such a move, plus it would probably spell the end of their Hardware division, nobody would buy a $1200 Apple branded machine when a $299 does the same...

Of course, given the recent developments it seems like Apple still has some homework to do. Reports are all over the net of people installing and running OSX on their plain vanilla Intel boxes.

Do you honestly think Apple cares? Downloading and installing a cracked OS, and needing to dowload and install a patch for the OS and all the apps everytime Apple releases an update sounds more like Linux circa 1995 than OSX. How many people that would have bought a Mac will buy a Dell for $200 cheaper and then jump through all those hoops? The best part about owning a Mac is the seemless, easy experience.

Apple's goal is likely the same as Microsoft's with product activation - to dissuade casual pirates. Any copy protection scheme can and will be cracked. In the meantime, you've got the geek sites buzzing about your product, and a bunch of people booting their machines into your stolen OS instead of MS's stolen OS. I don't think the people in Cupertino are losing much sleep over it.