Forbes.com: Will Apple Put Intel Inside?

Forbes.com: Will Apple Put Intel Inside?

And therein lies the biggest reason that Apple will stick with the PowerPC chip for the foreseeable future. It doesn’t want to go head-to-head with Microsoft.

“By saying its machines are a separate OS on a separate platform, Apple can say it doesn’t compete directly with Microsoft,” says Kevin Krewell, analyst with MicroDesign Resources. “Moving to an Intel or AMD platform would put them directly in Microsoft’s crosshairs, and that is something Apple should not want to do.”