Someone who has a contact at Apple says we shouldn't expect Mactels at MacWorld. Given Intel's previous roadmaps, it could well be true. Apple hitched up with Intel for a number of reasons, including the power usage and price/performance of forthcoming chips Intel has said it will be making in future. Intel would have had to have accelerated its own chip development for a relatively small customer to meet a January target. It is far more wedded to the corporate world than Apple and the corporate world needs predictability, rather than the shock and awe surprise announcements of a Steve Jobs keynote. Any such speed-up would have been well publicised by now.
Nevertheless, there are enough analysts hinting at January and enough imprecision in the blog entry (the author's contact sounds like a general 'obfuscator', to use a polite word) for me to think that there's still at 75% chance of Mactels in January. How would that be possible? Using existing chips rather than one of the forthcoming chips everyone's been predicting. It won't be quite the fait accompli that would have convinced nay-sayers the Intel move was undoubtedly the right one. But with a Steve Jobs reality distortion field to hand, that little detail can easily be smoothed over.
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