Apple to dump PPC for future Macs?

[DarkHawke]

Very interesting piece  here
at OSNews (with links to the original sources) on a proposed shift of the Macintosh hardware architecture from PPC to x86-type CPUs, likely either AMD's or Intel's next-gen 64-bit chips.  An intriguing twist on the Amiga situation, no?  

Will the Mac addicts declare a non-PPC Mac bogus?  Will a big ol' online petition drive be mounted?  Or will it generally be thought of as a good thing, to try and vastly improve on the speed and value of Macs in the future while still retaining the look and feel of the machines so many have come to love?  You be the judge!
 :-D