Heh - a few years ago the net eng on my team, who was a rabid apple fanboi, and I got into an arguement about the future of MACs<p>I said i was inevitable that apple would start putting Intel chips in their machines and he was adamant that it would NEVER happen.<p>He kept saing that the reason why MACs were good was because they were not x86 based - and that because of all the backwards compatibility issues that microsoft was to deal with on the x86 platform -- there would never be any way in hell apple would ever go that way.<p>Well, here we are -- and the thing is that we pay the premium for Apples industrial engineering and software engineering -- but the underlying chips will be homogeneous.