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I will be surprised if it runs on generic IBM-compatible PC hardware. Presumably, it will run on custom Apple boards which don't have legacy PC junk on them (e.g. a BIOS).

Other than increased clock speed, I'm not sure what Apple stand to gain from this.

I'm one of the not-insignificant number of people who bought Apple hardware specifically to run GNU-Linux (replacing a PC). I bought a Mac Mini for several reasons, one being that it had a Freescale 7447A PowerPC processor, others being low power consumption and noise. Note that the clock speed was not a concern: 1.42 GHz is ample for most tasks; nowadays CPUs are all very fast, or very very fast, so I chose Apple for reasons other than raw CPU power.

Frankly, if Apple produce x86 hardware, they have lost a future customer when I come to upgrade, because I would never have considered Apple hardware which contained a little-endian x86 processor, and will not in the future. I'll simply buy a POWER-based system from a different vendor (e.g. IBM), even if it costs more. For me MacOS X and its applications didn't enter the equation.

Regards, Roger

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