I am trying to connect some dots from Engadget posts … Microsoft’s Xbox "2" is suppose to be running IBM PowerPC 970/970x processor.

Currently Apple’s systems all seem to run on IBM PowerPC processors.

The next version of Playstation "3" from Sony is running the "Cell" processor (co-developed by Sony/Toshiba/IBM).

Now analysts are saying that Apple/Sony could offer "Cell" laptops, because Mac X runs on IBM PowerPC, and IBM is part of "Cell", so the "port should be easy?!?" I’d have to agree to that in general, because to get to Mac OS X, Apple used NeXT’s Mach kernel which was Intel based to go to PowerPC right?

So if Apple has an easy ride to "Cell", then Xbox "2" should be "Cell" savvy also since it is PowerPC based. So, how much Windows is in Xbox OS to get to a "Cell" Longhorn?

That detail I don’t know, but I am guessing a great deal of Xbox relies on Windows technologies because didn’t Bill Gate’s Xbox "2" demo Blue Screen of Death?

Which all begs the question, where is Intel/AMD in all this?