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Pentium isn't living up to performance or yield expectations, while the 601 is exceeding expectations on both fronts. I don't doubt that Intel will manufacture a lower-power version of Pentium, but then what? What remains to be seen, and will be played out over the next couple of years, is whether customers are so attached to their 80×86 code base that they are willing to endure a mostly dead-end technology path at great expense. If they are, that's too bad for them and disastrous for Apple. Shifting to a PowerPC code base will be uncomfortable, but the hardware will be cheaper and faster. And isn't that how DOS/Windows really came to dominate the market anyway? It wasn't because DOS/Windows is a better front end, it's because that happened to be the OS of choice on the fastest, cheapest hardware.