The fact that IBM has launched two new PowerPC processors, which up until recently were used within Apple's Macs, has given a new impulse to the controversies regarding Steve Jobs's decision to switch to Intel processors.

Some of Mac's fans had some issues with Apple's surprising decision and the fact that IBM has launched the two new PowerPC 970MP and PowerPC 970FX processors for laptops offers them some new arguments supporting the idea that Apple should have considered its options more carefully before renouncing to the partnership with BigBlue.

However, Steve Jobs's supporters underline the fact that the divorce between Apple and IBM hasn't been based on IBM's incapacity of supplying new technologies, but rather on its deficiencies regarding the quantity of supplied products as well as the fact that IBM hasn't respected the deadline for launching the new low-power and dual-core processors.

In fact, the first Intel-based Apple systems have already begun to be available for the software developers who will ensure the migration of programs towards the new platforms, and they had nothing but good things to say about the new technology.

After all, if Apple's systems will continue to live up to the standards with which the users have grown accustomed, it won't matter if they have an IBM or Intel processor inside. We'd better wait for 2006 in order to see whether Jobs was right or not, because then the migration will be complete and things will really begin to be interesting.