A few questions about the Mac/Intel thing

1. What's going on with 64-bit stuff? Was all of the 64-bit talk that started happening with the G5, and ramped up with Tiger, specific to the PPC platform? I hope we're not going to have to go through a 32-bit x86 to 64-bit x86 transition a few years down the line, particularly since NOW is the time to go 64-bit (as Apple's been saying). That would be one transition too many.

2. There's been a lot of talk about what needs to be done to get applications ported to Intel (Xcode 2.1 and universal binaries), and to allow PPC apps to run on Intel machines (Rosetta), but what about device drivers and other low-level system components?

3. How will this affect the user experience (if at all)? Will Intel Macs wake from sleep as quickly as PPC-based Macs do? Are there any other subtle features that won't work as well on the Intel platform?

Hopefully, Apple, the press, and the blogosphere will get these answers out quickly. And hopefully they'll be the right answers!