In case you missed it (in which case you really should get around the Web more!), c|net is reporting (and the Wall Street Journal is confirming) that at tomorrow’s Apple World-Wide Developer’s Conference, Steve Jobs will announce that the Macintosh is moving to the Intel x86 platform and away from the G4/G5 line made by Motorola/IBM.
It is a « widely-known secret » that OS X runs on Intel hardware, and indeed, OS X’s ancestor, NextStep, ran on several different processor architectures, including the 486. And Apple already went through a tough transition from the 68xxx family to the PowerPC.
Even so, you can read mostly stunned and incredulous reactions by the hundreds on many tech and Mac sites such as Slashdot, Ars Technica, Mac Rumors, AppleInsider, etc.