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Originally posted by: Switch Radic
Gillian, just one question, will you be able to run PC hardware with those Intel PowerPC's? Cause hardware encoding means that you have a dedicated board put into a PCI slot on you comp that does nothing but encode to DVD9 or Mpeg2.
Just to clarify, Intel wont be making PowerPC chips, they will continue making the Pentiums, etc, and they will be used in the Macs. As far as I know, there really wont be anything too special about the new Macintels (by the way I've seen the term Macintel used a lot more than Mactel), just high end parts with special firmware on the motherboard to allow the installation of Mac OS X (regular PCs wont be able to, since Apple is still mainly a hardware company and not a software company). So I'd guess you could upgrade in any way like a current PC.
Probably wouldn't be too long 'til someone hacked Mac OS X onto a Dell though!