MongoTheGeek said:There would be issues with developers not doing stuff for both. They would need to spend a lot of effort to get Rosetta to work both ways.
Steve is pissed at IBM. 2 WWDCs without the promised 3GHz machines makes him and the promise look *REALLY* bad. IBM will have to pull 3.5GHz DC processors out with the same power characteristics as the current chips and some G5's that run at 2.5 or so GHz (I'll give you 1.75 dual core) that are powerbook suitable for Steve to even think of going back. That and some price guarantees.
I think that there is (sadly) no possbility of going back. That seems like it would be a bordering-on-insane manoevre for Jobs, especially after singing the praise for Intel at the WWDC.
Like it or not, it's time to sigh and accept the fact that the PowerPC is nearing the end of its life, and the difference between Macs and PCs that Mac owners seems so proud of is about to get much smaller.