Every once in a while someone spews forth a little nugget of hilarity that it’s hard to resist saying something about it. This is even better… it’s more like a conglomeration of nuggets, I guess.

Let’s just get on with it:

Instead, an even better and more audacious speculation is that once publicly free of the PC division IBM will either buy, or form a close joint venture with Apple to sell its PCs, which coincidentally are now built around IBM’s PowerPC chip.

Selling its PC Division would also pave the way for such an IBM move to be approved by the FTC. To add even more heat to already hot gossip, it turns out that Apple is not among the published list of early companies signing up for IBM’s PowerPC consortia – a rather strange gap given Apple’s now absolute dependency on that microprocessor range.”

Uh, hel-LO? I wonder where the Reg has been hanging out… I don’t suppose they noticed that Apple “coincidentally” hasn’t sold a PC without a PowerPC chip in almost 9 years (the Power Duo 280c seems to be the last). And those CPUs are supplied by only two vendors! Horrors! Run, Chicken Little! Run!

By the by, word on the street is that Dell, H-PAQ, and other less well-known PCs are dependent on only two vendors for their CPU needs, too. Someone call the press!! It’s scandalous!

And then there’s this gem:

Then of course there is Darwin, Apple’s version of BSD Unix at the heart of its Mac OS X operating system, which would nicely provide IBM with a non Linux semi-open source alternative, and one that is focused on its on benchmark beating P (sorry G) 5 microprocessor. And of course there is all that synergy in the high performance, bargain priced Unix server and disk array products that Apple has taken to market, which must be hard to resist.

Darwin is a version BSD Unix(TM – The Open Group)? Puh-lease. And check out the grammar in that first incredibly masterful run-on sentence. “ON… ON… ON… O-O-ONN…” (sorry, starting to sound like Norman again) What are you trying to say, mon… spit it out! (Aren’t Editors supposed to find and flag that sort of stuff before it gets out onto the public web site for all to laugh at?) (Nobody here but us chickens…?ed)

Anyway, if they can’t get their facts straight, and they usually don’t, I’m finding it hard to take their wild-eyed speculation even remotely seriously.

And now back to your regularly scheduled insanity…