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[jhalada]

Keith,

Apple said earlier that the company would deliver new Macintosh computers using Intel microprocessors by June...

...A November 30 Reuters report cited Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner as saying that Apple may launch its first Intel-based PowerBook as early as January.

From the dates, it sounds like Yonah. A little weird, if you asked me, to come out with a Yonah based computer almost 6 months after release of the processor. Time to market is important, which makes me wonder about the delay.

If Apple is going to wait until June, why not wait until Merom / Conroe ships a few months later? If Apple is starting fresh in this x86 market, why complicate things with introduction x86-32 legacy, and not go directly to x86-64? For once, Apple could have an instruction set that would not change on semi-annual basis...

The only sound explanation of this is if Intel ships Merom / Conroe early, in June.

Joe