from the apple mac user perspective, intel was a company of little significance. now that apple+intel are partners, and the entire apple enterprise is moving to intel, tradeshows like winHEC or intel technology presentations portend well for the mac platform. for an excellent summary of where intel plans to take it’s own architecture, recently named core 2, take a look at the intel server technology update from the prudential london technology conference webcast from 17 may 2006.
the future looks very bright for apple riding in the wings of intel.