The cheeky folks over at Think Secret have dissected the first Intel-based Macs that ship with the $999 Apple Development Kits (ADK 2.1) and posted the results (with pictures) for all to see.

Everything looks fine except for this:

Apple’s System Profiler reports the graphics card as an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 800.

Aw HELL NO.

The Intel-based graphics chips use shared system RAM in lieu of dedicated VRAM, which makes for a fairly uninspiring performance to say the least. I’m hoping that this was a decision to keep the cost down on the development kits. Most developers won’t know the difference unless they are working on a graphics-intensive application such as a game which uses a lot of 3D graphics. By ship time, they’ll probably dropkick the i8xx chipset (for graphics) and use a built-in or add-on ATI or nVidia-based solution.

Oh, and for those of you who were thinking you could install the copy of OS X that comes with the kit on any old PC, think again:

As for installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, attempts to boot from the included Mac OS X for Intel disc resulted in an error message on both a Dell and off-brand PC. The message states that the hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin x86.