chipguy,
Only a raving lunatic could think AMD could have dreamed
of offering Apple a tiny fraction of that amount of technical
hand-holding in the areas of system hardware development,
system software porting, and development and tuning tools.
AMD itself largely depends on the kindness of strangers in
all of these this areas.
Which would make it extra sweet if iCon tells Intel to go f. themselves, and starts purchasing microprocessors from AMD, just as Dell did.
Joe
PS: Wasn't the argument that Dell will never use AMD that Intel provided all the engineering and hand holding to Dell?