Highly respected analyst Jon Peddie has his say on Apple's decision to start using Intel x86 chips.

Apple has been experimenting with x86 processors for some time, and in fact Steve Jobs revealed what has been rumored for years that a secret team inside Apple has had their OSes running on x86 for over five years. OS X was developed as much on x86 hardware as it was on PowerPC. SO if Apple wanted to, they could have offered OS X to the x86 world a year ago. However, Leopard the new x86 version of OS X will not come out until 2006 about the same time Longhorn comes out.

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