Woohoo! i was there for the announcement. "It's Tru[sub]e[/sub]" came up on the screen and half of the crowd clapped and seemed excited, and the rest were either disappointed or unsure. The whole rest of the day was spent miling about the crowd, and everyone has their own opinion and idea for what's going to be the first mac to ship with intel chips.
It was cool though, the machine he was using to demo dashboard and spotlight, etc., was running an intel chip, and it worked well. He launched tons of apps, photoshop, etc., and it worked fine.. unlike Gates' demos that give the BSOD
Tomorrow I'm going to go play with one of the intel tiger boxes. A few of the developers I'm here with have already made the modifications to get their apps working on the intel machines... it took them maybe an hour to recompile and do what they needed. The CEO of mathematica was there and told us that he had one developer out over the weekend and they got it modified for the Intel box in 2 hours.
Apps that haven't been recompiled will run under Rosetta, and the user will never know that it's pretending to be a PPC. He ran Word and Works as a demo of this, and they were pretty snappy. Photoshop did take a while to load plugins, but after that he was able to do stuff.
It's so badass to look around and see almost 4,000 other programmers, all with powerbooks. it's just wild.