Why Apple hasn't used Intel processors before

"So, throughout Apple's existence, there has simply never been both a reason and opportunity to use Intel processors"

There is not one mention of Star Trek, because I guess that would throw out the entire post. Macs ran on x86 in the mid 80s and again in the early 90s with Intel's blessing. This was done before the Pentium so its a misleading statement to imply the Pentium couldn't run the Mac OS. So if you want to call this the opportunity (Intel helping Apple), the reason would be Apple's downward spiral in the late 90's.

Before Apple's comeback, everyone was saying they were going to fade off into irrelevance. That would give them a strong reason to switch to Intel. So I would claim that they had both the reason and the opportunity previously.

The Pentium Pro was designed to be a server chip and it didn't run 16 bit apps at the time because MS was late in moving Windows to 32bit. Since MS and Intel work together Intel was following MS OS plan. To imply that the Pentium Pro was a chip for the lay person is misleading.

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