It's typical stupidity from steve jobs though, go with intel when they finally start falling behind AMD and start cancelling entire lines of processors and laying off the guys behind netburst

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Same thing with their newer MPC8641D chip - it has two G4e cores (labeled as 'e600') with a clock speed of >1.5 GHz, two on-die DDR2-667 memory controllers, four on-die Gigabit ethernet adapters, and two on-die PCI Express 8x controllers - all with an average power consumption of around 15 Watts. In short, this chip would be a killer mobile processor for a Powerbook, or for the Mac Mini; being able to connect a PCI-e graphics chip directly to the CPU is awesome by itself, but throw dual core on top of that, and scads of main memory bandwidth, and this compares more than favorably with the Pentium M. And, unlike the dual-core Pentium M derivative Apple's planning on using in the future, this chip has been available since late 2004; yet Freescale doesn't seem to be in a very big rush to make these as desktop chips for Apple.

All this really shows is something a lot of PC advocates have been saying for years - Apple has become something of a bit player in the PC industry, and doesn't move enough systems for either Freescale or IBM to cater to them anymore.

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