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They haven't said whether x86 or not. The demo machine at WWDC was a 3.6ghz P4, so that was x86, and the developer hardware is the same spec, so while they didn't officially announce which processor is to be used I assume it will be x86, I just don't think it'll be any current model Intel processor. It'll have to be 64bit, preferably multi core, it'll have to be MP capable (which the P4 isn't) and it'll have to be able to render multiple streams of video effectively (at least as effectively as the G5) and as far as I can see there isn't an Intel processor on the market that fill that niche. I have no idea what Apple saw during their talks with Intel but it must have been good, no way Apple would consider a processor that didn't perform better than the G5 so it has to be a development Intel part they looked at.
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