Intel Inside... Macs

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by gekko

No, Apple still has complete control over the hardware, just now instead of including G5 chips, they will include Intel chips. Not sure if intel will make custom Mac chips, or if Apple will just use the existing chip they have at the time. If it was possible to just install it on a PC, they could've done it the last 5 years, and Mac OS X would've run fine.

However, this could make Windows to Mac ports a lot smoother. We'll see.

I guess I'll have to read more before I fully understand it then. Because it states that they have it running on a 3.6GHZ P4 right now, and they're making that dev kit available. So I guess what confuses me: what makes it incompatible with current PC's if it's compiled for x86 processors. What decides what's compatible with what?