Dreaming of an AMD-based Mac is not far from reality as AMD technology get better each day, evolves and its new hardcore processors trounce Intel’s performance, but not only hardcore power will be the main reason for Apple to have AMD as a processors supplier, Intel and Nvidia are fighting its own war, something that could slow the pace for new video cards on Intel based Macs, an area where AMD could easily benefit providing its ATI brand to power not only a few macs, but a totally new line of affordable macs.

The real problem with Intel and Apple is that Intel is too busy creating Operating Systems, Integrated Graphic chips and 1000 others stuff at the same time and Apple suffered something similar with IBM when it was the G5 chip supplier, IBM was too busy supplying chips for the Xbox, Playstation and other gaming platforms, a situation that forced Apple to abandon the PowerPC with not regret.

With AMD on board, Apple can design their specifications and AMD manufactures the chips, banning AMD from selling the chips to rivals PC makers, similar to what Samsung is doing with the A4. AMD could help accelerate the mac adoption, providing faster, better and cheaper chips to Apple, something that will end in more affordable macs.

Here 5 Benefits of an AMD based Mac:
1. Price Price Price
Apple could use the AMD based Mac to get better prices on Intel chips and while it doesn’t guarantee any price reduction on Intel based Macs, it could mean a substantial price cut on AMD Macs.

2. Faster and better Graphic chips
It’s a win-win situation for Apple and AMD, supplying chips for Apple could not only help AMD sells a few million chips, but it may profit from making ATI+AMD combos, selling more of its ATI video cards.

3. OpenCL all over
AMD is a full backer of OpenCL and the Mac will benefit from having AMD’s chips with Mac OS X 10.6. It means more GPU power for applications to enjoy. So, AMD is more than ready to be a chips supplier for the mac.

4. Nvidia = Price cuts, better graphics
Nvidia won’t be let outside, it will have to innovate to guarantee a pie of the Mac graphic business and it could mean cheaper, faster and better graphic cards for the mac in order to compete with AMD’s ATI.

5. Profit
Apple could gain/profit from the new AMD based Macs even more than those with Intel, Apple could launch those macs with a more attractive entry price and profit from a lot higher from those with Intel processors. It will help accelerate mac mass adoption while gaining from those higher priced machine.

This is business and you may not like the idea of an AMD mac, but Apple won’t let Intel and is ideas of World domination while the mac is left behind with poor performance integrated graphic chips and processors that bring nothing new to the platform, this is a big business opportunity for both, AMD and Apple and you may bet that Mac future it won’t be on Intel’s hands as it was on IBM and Motorola.