> But even in 2005, Intel wasn't necessarily good - they just happened to be the least bad right then. I don't think it's a coincidence that Intel Macs coincid

> But even in 2005, Intel wasn't necessarily good - they just happened to be the least bad right then. I don't think it's a coincidence that Intel Macs coincided with the release of Core/Core 2 Duo cpus. At the time there was nothing close to them by any metric. Remember Intel enjoyed a generational lead in foundry tech for decades.