A year ago, there were great hopes and dreams about how Macs would improve this year. Perhaps we’d see the arrival of the long-awaited PowerBook G5, a Power Mac with a 3GHz processor, and lots of other great gear. You even heard speculation about a Video iPod, although you almost had to give up hope [...]

The way Steve Jobs tells it, Apple decided to switch to Intel because its processor road map is superior to IBM’s. On the surface, it does appear that IBM was unable to deliver the parts Apple needed when it needed them. Since then, there’s been plenty of speculation as to just what chips will make [...]