Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs confirmed today, at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference, that it will shift its Macintosh line of computers from IBM’s PowerPC to Intel processors. First products will appear in June 2006 and transition should be completed by the end of 2007. Apple previewed a version of its Mac OS X running on an Intel-based Mac during Jobs’ keynote address. The CEO attributed the shift to past problems and limitations on PowerPC’s future performance. A Developer Transition Kit, which will allow developers to prepare versions of their applications running both on PowerPC and Intel chips, is immediatelly available, priced at USD 999.