Yes, you read the headline right! Here we go again…

In his WinHEC blog, Paul Thurrott made an interesting comment about Apple’s response to IBM’s progress with the G5:

This one’s bizarre, but we heard at lunch today that Apple is unhappy with the PowerPC production at IBM and will be switching to Intel-compatible chips this very year. Yeah, seriously.

Thurrott is not considered a reliable rumor source. In previous instances, Thurrott claimed that Apple would add full WMA support to the iPod and iTunes as a stipulation in their iPod distribution agreement with HP.

In the meantime, Mac rumor sites predict that new PowerMacs up to 2.7 GHz are due tomorrow (April 27).

Deep Thought’s take:This rumor is almost as played out as the Apple PDA one! Since this rumor was spawned at a hardware conference, we’ll see how it pans out. For now, however, it would be safe to assume that this too is a groundless rumor (as was every other Mac-on-x86 rumor out there). From where I’m sitting, it almost sounds like wishful thinking from PC users that Apple would make OS X run on an x86 machine. Ain’t gonna happen.