Apple's Arrogance

I was thinking the other day about how I'd love a 15" PowerBook, but after I read this thread on another blog I'm having second thoughts about it until the G5 PowerBooks come out (which may never happen). It seems like everyone is in love with their PowerBook, but yet they are slow. I just can't see shelling out that kind of money for a laptop that's not up to the task for me. (To be fair... I need basically a portable desktop for development - my requirements are quite high ).

If onlyApple would hook up with AMD! Could you imagine having a 3700+ Mobile Athlon PowerBook? Apple has had a X86 version of OS-X floating around their office for years now. Heck, with that kind of power they could emulate the G4 and not lose any performance over their existing hardware. And... a dual 3700 Athlon system would probably be faster than the current dual G5s (and cheaper to produce too!).

The market is ripe for the "switch" campaign more now than ever. And yet... I think Apple's arrogance will never allow them to move to a X86 based platform. This leaves a large number of people (me included) sitting on the fence, wanting an Apple but not being able to justify the price/performance.

That said... I'm still really interesting in a Mini-Mac, but... that'll never go to work with me. :(