*This thing is just for fun, please vote! I'm getting seriously bummed out here*

Intel is as you might now about to almost leave the PC market.

Now that IBM has left not only the consumers, but also the corporate buyers of laptops, they should start to think about where to spend all that money. They already spent one billion on linux, and that paid of pretty well. Now how about a new line of Power based laptops, and when the cell processor hits the streets, which as I understand is based on Powerpc CPUs, they could, along with Toshiba, CRUSH Intel's monopoly by releasing LINUX PowerPC based Thinkpads and Laptops.

Think about it, if they made laptops with open-source drivers, open standards, open projects, it would give us a clean start without hardware vendors saying "we do not support linux" or "drivers for linux will be made available at a later stage". IBM's server/cpu section would get a market boost, and new weapons against Intel, it would coincide with the "power everywhere" thingamabob. They have recently said they wanted to open power to everyone, so this could be the new "PC".

If Ibm disappears from the consumer/business laptop market (let's face it, laptops are more important than stand alone systems for consumers and CEOs, start flaming please) they might loose considerable market share because buyers of larger machines "forgets" about IBM, while the Dell or HP in front of them running Windows....

To all you critics out there, I've never said that linux should abandon pc-hardware all together, it was just that little annoying voice inside your head. Stop criticizing me!! (oh, that was the voice inside my head)

This is pure genius, somebody make me something important in IBM please!

It makes perfect sense, if the CEO has it on his laptop, he'll wan't it on his servers, the it-manager just has to tolerate that, no linux on CEO laptop, no Linux servers. Power and linux you say? what a great idea!! Also, if they want more voluntary developers on PowerPC they need to supply them with proper tools. I really fancy a mac, the problem is, its a designers laptop, it looks great, but it hasn't great resolution, linux support out of the box, developers has to guess how to develop drivers. I'm no developer yet, I'd consider myself a linux power-user with great interest in linux and computers, it is only fair that power-users like me get powerPC laptops!