Hmmmmmmmm, isn't it funny how IBM "opened up" the CELL technology to others after the weekends Apple and Intel speculations?
Anyway I do hope that CELL-like (I say CELL-like because the PS3 CELL is not suited for regular computing BUT it does have potential to be one)...
Anyway, CELL technology seems to be versatile and adaptable to specific users needs, at least thats what I got from reading all the articles I found so far...
Its floating performance seems to be very good, integer performance can be improved by changing the PPE unit into something such as a current G5, I know the size of such a chip would be big but it wouldnt be so much bigger than current two 970fxs, and with performance gains of the CELL (especially in the floating point arena, and isn't that what Apple all those multimedia apps require?) I could care less about MS word and such, it already ran good enough on 1GHZ machines so integer performance doesnt matter a whole lot to me...
Apple really wouldnt have to use Dual configurations in PowerMacs, maybe create an Xstation for the multiprocessor configurations and thats it...
EDIT: And Cell is a specialized processor but not as specialized as lets say a GPU, CELL is capable of running regular routines too, anyway, like I said, just change the PPE of the CELL to a Power4-Power5 derivative, and as far as programming goes, you can't really expect programming to stay still when processor technology evolves, programming has to evolve too, anyway, Apple likes giant leaps and this would definately be one giant leap...