I would like to read the story about various Mac websites or periodicals dissing the Pentium in the past and then greeting today's announcement with excitement and glee. I don't have the time to look up those old articles myself, but it's a good way to get both the Mac-haters and the Mac-supporters angry at you and reading the piece.
Tell your assignment editor that I'm guaranteeing at least a number 10 spot on Blogdex, and a lengthy long tail shelf life as people continually refer back to the story in future blog posts, either to demonstrate the fickleness of the Mac audience or its open-minded willingness to change and evolve.
Various Mac websites that diss the Pentium like this one? ;-)
I especially like this quote from there:
Jeevan, if you check out the charts you linked to, they point out that the G5 advantage is CPU cycle for CPU cycle. That is to say, the 2Ghz G5 would crush a 2Ghz Pentium 4.
But the move to Intel architecture is based in some part on IBM's inability to push CPU clock speeds as years go around the real-world clock. I think the real point made here is just that Intel (and AMD, I would say) are much more interested in desktop CPUs and making them faster than IBM is.
Years ago, Steve Jobs promised 3 gigahertz, and he hasn't been able to deliver it. He wants to, but IBM won't. So, he "made the switch."
-- Asheesh.
Asheesh--I wasn't linking to those pages to show that the G5 was faster than comparable Intel processors. Linking to Apple-made benches to show the G5 is better than the P4 would be like linking to Microsoft-funded studies that show that Windows is faster/cheaper than Linux solutions.
I was linking them only to show that Apple itself had always been putting down the x86 platform so their switch to x86 is ironic/surprising/humorous.