Speculation on the explosive reports that Apple is going to switch the Mac to Intel processors.
As usual, he offers a good, if pungent, analysis.
I have to wonder if the move isn’t to x86 but Itanium (would it have to be recast as iTanium?). It’s 64 bit, where x86 is not, and there is considerable work being done on the FreeBSD community for it. If Apple’s software engineers can make gcc 4 available for a mainstream architecture before anyone else (as far as I know), who knows what they can do with Itanium by mid summer of next year?
[composed and posted with ecto]
And making the Mini the first box to cross over works due to its outboard power supply: it makes the heat generated by Intel chips easier to manage without redesigning everything, I suspect.