Intel chips and Macs

Hi,
I've been a happy Mac user for 3 years and love my Power Book G4. I'd like to buy a Power Mac G5, but am thinking of waiting until the ones with Intel chips are ready. Has any developer out there tested these machines? Regretfully, I need to use several programs for research that are only available for a PC and don't want to resort to using Virtual PC. I did find some open source programs that are similar but my boss doesn't like the output. Is it likely that this software will run on a Mac with Intel chips?

There is DARWINE being worked on right now for the MacTels
http://darwine.opendarwin.org//
And you could be waiting the longest for a PowerMacTel machine, because the G5 chip is very good bang for the processor buck right now and there isn't a space/heat issue like there is for say laptops.
Also a LOT of software will have to be reworked for MacTels, so early adopters won't be able to run the majority of PPC G5 based software, even though some have recompiled and are ready to go already.
VPC supposedly only uses one processor (nice of Microsoft to do that), so unless your PC based programs are not to heavy they should run fine on the PPC PowerMac G5.

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