ditto on the intel sucks thing. i think we all know amd is the real maker of pc chips, but intel is what matters to the mindless masses.
i think assuming itanium is kinda assuming the g5 will stick around for much longer than steve wants it to. if we believe the rumors we will be moving through g6s and g7s fairly quickly (assuming motorola gets its head out of its ... posterior).
frankly id like to see motorola selling off the powerpc rights to ibm and apple buys all the other patents, and have ibm develop future chips.ibm has already shown us the can develop faster. the g3 reached 1ghz how long ago? but they cant sell it until the g4 gets up there! motorola is holding everybody back (except intel), its time for apple to drop them.