On the newest TWIT.tv show (#8) , John C. Dvorak and Leo Laporte discuss and debate the big news in the Apple world: Apple to use Intel chips, which Macheads have disputed as bogus, but is being reported as will be confirmed at today’s WDDC by Steve Jobs. Here’s just a few of many juicy quotes:

Laporte: “It’s Steve Jobs ultimate act of arrogance.”
Dvorak: “Possibly the biggest thing Apple has done to dominate the market.”
Laporte: “I think we’re going to look at this as the day Apple committed suicide.”

Dvorak thinks it’s a good thing and Laporte thinks it’s a bad move. When asked later in the program if he’d buy a dual boot Windows / Mac he said yes. I’d buy one too, and I bet a bunch of other people would as well. Apple makes great machines.

Why Leo thinks this is a bad deal:
1) all software would have to be rewritten. An intel OS X version of Photoshop, for example.
2) Why X86? Why saddle yourself with a company at the end of the line? Will it be Itanium?
3) Who is going to buy a Mac in the next 18 months? The Osborne effect. The Mini will be based on Intel in 2006 and every bit of software you buy won’t work on the new machines.

Kevin Rose speculates that Jobs may announce that they have tools that ISVs can use to develop that run on both Mac and Windows. That would be awesome if that’s what they do. No developers I know enjoy maintaining and updating code on multiple platforms.

Steve Jobs keynote starts at 10am PST, just as I’m publishing this piece, so we’ll soon find out if this rumour is really true or false. If only this was streamed live on the internet!

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