Apple's Next Test: Get Developers to Write Programs for Intel Chips.

Discusses the implications of Apple Computer's decision to shift the Macintosh microprocessor business to longtime rival Intel, after more than a decade with IBM. Comments of Appel's chief, Steven P. Jobs and Paul S. Otellini, head of Intel; Outlook for the changeover; Challenges, including persuading Apple customers to continue to buy Mac computers based on IBM's PowerPC chip while waiting for the Intel versions to arrive; How the Intel-Apple partnership could affect the balance in the industry; Views of skeptics.