The password is . . . Mactel

Come on.. Apple arn't about to be sticking stickers on there chassis.. it's much more likely that if ANY mark of intel is on the units at all it'll be subtle and kick ass.. remember Apple make thier own chassis, and therefore can machine a cool lil intel logo into the aluminium in the bottom right corener.. nice! (it's more likley to be on the side anyways.. after all, wheres the apple?) OK, keep the following points in mind when thos of you worried aboutt he performace speak up. IBM's PC chips (cyrix) over heated, used odd bus clock speeds, fell over if you sneezed in the direction on the cpu, couldn't even think about speed jumps in later production and genrally were rather bad eggs!.. Yet, we have the G5 (chior in back groud) INTEL's PC chips are stable (it's windows that fals over), Don't make much heat, can be over clocked to buggery and so have a good future for speed and are, lets be honest, good chips all round! so imagine Intel's developers working with Apples project managers.. if Apple can drive IBM to make the G5 then Intel and Apple is a good idea! Bring on the G6!

...or, you could just get over it. The fact that hoards of macusers even started taking -defense- to the entire Intel vs. Motorola/IBM chip issue is just...naff, and small. Think Different, people. IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER. If the fact that the chip in your computer has a different brand mark on it is weighing on your mind, well... what can you say? Like you - the computer is just a tool.

really... we can all say goodbye to power book and power mac. i blieve that the 'power' prefix in the name comes from the PowerPC chip. without that chip it wouldnt be right to use the name... so what would be the new name of the former 'power' line up? I would really hate to see: IntelMac IntelBook

One of the problems with all the combination names mentioned is that they dilute the brand Intel, which Intel have worked (and spent lots of money) to get into people's heads. One of things you don't do with a well remembered brand name is change it or dilute it. I still think it will be referred to as the Intel G6 (and possibly Intel G7 for the PowerMac).

Well, I'd say that's only marginally better than what could have been: INMAC. And the ads for that would have been worse: "Hey, what's IN your MAC?" Doh! Hehehehehehe........

wouldn't intac be so much cooler. the intel mac.

Macintel, Apintosh, Macintosh featuring Intel, Intelosh, mTel... anything but Mactel, please Steve, save us from Mactel! There are so many better names...Intelitosh, Mapple-tel, need I go on ;) I have afeeling we're either going to get a good name OR no stickerson our new computers, but not both. I can't imagine Intel being ok with their chips just sitting inside the machine unceremoniously. I'm hoping for Mapple-tel.

The latest Joy of Tech touches on this... http://www.geekerotica.com/joyoftech/joyimages/696.gif

You've heard of defensive copyrights, yes? Often created to defend the identity of a product, to keep it from being abused. Apple clearly likes to control its brand identity - what better way than to take control of a word it likely despises?

Look,macheads made the switch from Motorola to IBM fine. same with OS9 to OSX C.K, Apple ARN'T gona use the term wintel 'cause it isn't a 'Buzz word' (i mean, it's just yuck) Apple wont put an 'Intel Inside'(cause it isn't white) sticker for all to see on the system (probably on the back) Trust Apple!