Apple Goes Intel...

Irrelevant. Even if the OS were limited to run on "X-Tels," it doesn't matter. It's a hop, skip and a jump to allow Windows apps to run, unofficially with WINE and officially with VPC, under the Mac OS. With an x86 CPU, there's now no emulation penalty for doing so, and you can imagine Microsoft will leverage that. Once people discover that writing a Windows app will do just as well for *both* platforms, the need to write a Mac-specific one simply evapourates. Incidentally, one of the Apple developer documentation files states that there is no more Open Firmware in these Intel Macs. Even Apple doesn't always reinvent the wheel, so it may be nothing more than a locked-out BIOS on a bog-standard mo'bo'. That's hardly strong insurance against illegal installations off the ranch. -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- If you're not very clever, you should be conciliatory. -- Benjamin Disraeli