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So maybe there won’t be Macs with Intel processors

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Remember last month how John Dvorak speculated that Apple was going to switch to Intel processors? Well John Gruber takes Dvorak’s conjecture to task in an piece over at Daring Fireball, and it includes a few gems like this:

No matter how badly people clamor for it, Apple is never going to release a version of Mac OS X that runs on standard Wintel PC hardware. Whether it’s possible or not, it isn’t going to happen. A frequent comment regarding this rumor is something like “I’d love a version of Mac OS X that ran on my PC.” Sure you would, you cheap bastard. Apple’s Switch campaign is an attempt to get PC users to buy thousands of dollars of Apple hardware, not hundreds of dollars of Apple software.

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