Attached Link: http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,67749,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4

Per Wired (see link), Apple's reasons for switching to the Intel chip (note: not platform)is because they want what is inside the new Pentium D chips. Intel's DRM code that Hollywood accepts as a medium to transfer movies to other devices (think iPods). If so then it's not about benefits to the Apple user base at all, but extending even more control to those with near-stagnant business models.

The more things change the more they remain the same.