It seems that Apple are indeed moving to Intel based processors. Now for developers, next year for the end users.

There have been ‘three transitions’:

1) 68030 –> PowerPC

2) OS 9 –> OS X

TODAY is time for 3rd transition

3) POWERPC –> INTEL PROCESSORS.

For developers NOW. For our users next year. “Why? because we want to be making the best computers.” Steve acknowledges not delivering on G5.

Also, there seems to have been a bit of a conspiracy theory! It appears that every release of Apple’s OSX has been compiled for both Intel and PowerPC. Mac OS X is cross-processor by design, and Steve job’s recent keynote speech was delivered on an X86 machine.