This is GREAT news - At last CHEAP PC-COMPETITIVE Macs!
This is great news because Mactels could be sold at the same price as PCs out there and not twice as expensive.
Besides, it would be great if Apple would include dual DVD drives and more VRAM, as standard even on ultra-cheap PCs half the price of current Macs.
And frontal connectors, please.
And modular design: we do not want to trow away a gorgeosus 20-inch TFT iMac monitor three years after purchase.
Do not take me wrong. Apple makes a great Mac OS X and great hardware, but sometimes PCs have also good features. Apple should get the best of both worlds.
And finally, imagine a Mactel booting natively as Mac OS X, Windows or Linux. Even better: switch from one OS to other using the new Intel virtualization chips. That would be awesome for many people. That alone would sell millions of Mactels and expand market share from 3% to 20% or more worldwide. That is exactly what Apple needs.