its ibm's fault......apple was one of there last hopes to stomp MS into the ground. then agian, apple might be trying a new trick, one that ms never pulled off, remember how the old winnt could boot on almost anything? x86, mips, alpha, ppc, and sparc i think? imagine if osx got that kinda multiplatform support, and did it correctly. different processers do different things well, intel chips are great at throughing integers around. alpha used to be able to beat anyting in its path down with its floating point ability. mips is cheap and easy to engineer your own solution and depending on how its built, can be one of the fastest procs out there. sparc is good for throughing data around. and powerpc is my prefered proccessor these days.