rumours from the land of crazy people:
dude thinks intel will merge with apple.
Apple are a hardware company and their real enemy is Dell (not microsoft).

okay, lets make up some random crazy dude stuff / and some not so crazy stuff:

Apple's enemies are all other companies other than Apple (excluding their partners, Intel) - so that means that Microsoft/Dell/HP/Linux are competitors. Apple is interested in making money, pure and simple, IBM seem to be stopping them from making the most of the current market situation. The current market situation is made up of millions of people who want to use the Internet/Email, but are having major problems with Windows due to Windows/Internet Explorer stagnation - Microsoft have been taking a VERY long time with an extremely out of date browser, and an operating system that's probably got more patches than original code. So Apple want to make the most of this, and to do this they need suppliers who can supply them in bulk (and this is something Intel can do).

Apple could release ultra cheap Mini (Intel) Macs (or just leave them at the current price), sell more than Dell, and end up with 30% or more market share with all those people running Mac OS X because they just want to use the internet and email and are sick of buggy/dodgy windows / viruses / spyware / popups etc.

Those people who don't want to go Apple, can just use Firefox, and have to put up with dodgy Windows.