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There were similar persistent rumors about Apple having a build of OS X running on x86 back in The Day. I dismissed them as wishful thinking by the rumorer. One

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  As far as I am aware, Apple had been running x86 OSX before even Steve knew about it. So the 5 years double life secret agent was merely a marketing pitch. The whole story was written on cake.co But what was clear though was Steve wanted a notebook, and Intel Centrino was the perfect fit. And the roadmap from IBM was a dead end. And it was very obvious, ( unless you belong to those group that does not believe in Notebook market) that switching to Intel was the only choice. But this time there is nothing ARM / Apple CPU can do that Intel cant. The only real advantage Apple get is cost reduction. Intel isn't like IBM where it has no low power roadmap, and Intel's IPC aren't far behind either.