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"Intel had a reputation for being a tough partner,
“人們都覺得英特爾是個難對付的合作伙伴，
coming out of the days when it was run by Andy Grove and Craig Barrett," Otellini said.
這是安迪·格魯夫和克雷格·巴雷特掌管英特爾時給人的印象，”歐德寧說。
"I wanted to show that Intel was a company you could work with."
“而我想要告訴大家，英特爾是一家可以合作的公司?！?/div>
So a crack team from Intel worked with Apple, and they were able to beat the conversion deadline by six months.
于是，英特爾派出一支精干團隊與蘋果公司合作，在6個月的期限內成功完成了芯片轉換。
Jobs invited Otellini to Apple's Top 100 management retreat,
喬布斯邀請歐德寧參加蘋果公司百杰集思會，
where he donned one of the famous Intel lab coats that looked like a bunny suit and gave Jobs a big hug.
歐德寧身著兔子裝一樣的英特爾實驗室外套，擁抱了喬布斯。
At the public announcement in 2005, the usually reserved Otellini repeated the act.
2005年兩家公司就合作發表了公開聲明，一向矜持的歐德寧又一次做出了同樣的舉動。
"Apple and Intel, together at last," flashed on the big screen.
大屏幕上出現了“蘋果和英特爾，終于在一起”。
Bill Gates was amazed. Designing crazy-colored cases did not impress him,
比爾·蓋茨對此感到驚奇。他對于設計色彩花哨的電腦機箱并無興趣，
but a secret program to switch the CPU in a computer, completed seamlessly and on time, was a feat he truly admired.
但是秘密換掉電腦內部的CPU，并能按時無縫完成，這是他真正欽佩的壯舉。
"If you'd said, 'Okay, we're going to change our microprocessor chip, and we're not going to lose a beat,' that sounds impossible,"
“如果你說，好，我們現在要換掉微處理器芯片，但是一拍都不能落下，這聽起來是不可能的”，
he told me years later, when I asked him about Jobs's accomplishments. "They basically did that."
多年后我采訪蓋茨，提起喬布斯的成就時他這樣告訴我?！暗麄兓咀龅搅??！?/p>
