This year Apple will buy AMD chips for the first time.  I had always wondered why Apple cose to go with Intel when AMD clearly had a better chip and was making more progress.  INtel has stagnated and rested on its laurel reefs for years. The interesting quesiton is what about ATI, which is being acquired by AMD?  Does that mean AMD Apple computers will only come with ATI graphic cards and chips?  Will people have a choice to go with an Nvidea and AMD?  Personally I was very happy with ATI with my PCs.  I am sure ATI will bring interesting systems to the table.

ATI has the lead in power-efficient, fast 3-D graphics. Some MacBook Pro use ATI Mobility Radeon cards.  The MacBook Pro is a desktop replacement-grade notebook, and it needs desktop graphics.

Will Apple the first vendor to integrate 64-bit Core Microarchitecture CPUs in its notebook, desktop, workstation and server products?

Apple clearly is in a position to not get pushed around anymore.  As much as it is nice seeing Apple getting the credit it rightfully deserves, hopefully they won’t get too big as to forget their rots as they once did.

Here is the full story at Infoworld.