With a little web sleuthing, the blogged article tells it all -- in August 2002: the problems with IBM, Steve Jobs' willingness to consider other platforms, and the secret "South Park alien" development team.
Read the article and consider the date. Conclusion: Apple has kept a current port of Mac OS X running in parallel with its PowerPC product with a team of at least a dozen engineers for three years, at least. That tells me the technology risk is very low for getting the "OS X on Intel" port into X86 machines next year -- in the thorough, tested fashion customers expect from major PC industry players. Consider the Apple work about done.
What comes next is getting the Mac software ecosystem on board. That should not be hard, as Apple is on the ascendancy.
-- Peter S. Kastner
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