Apple Goes Intel...

Yes, indeed IBM is a substantial company. But I'm not buying an IBM PC with Linux installed -- I have an installed base of Windows PCs at home. I wouldn't be buying it because I like Intel or the X86 architecture over the PPC architecture. I'm buying it because I'm tired of Windows. I, like lots of others, get my Linux distributions through downloads from Fedora, Mandrake, etc. yes, they're easier to install and configure than before, but there's something about the slickness of OSX and the support of Apple that would make me switch. I think I would be just as comfortable if I could purchase Linux from IBM for a single desktop without having to buy it preinstalled on IBM hardware. Apple's product is more polished and has lots of well-integrated featured that everyone in my family could love. Maybe I'm uninformed, which is possible because I don't follow Linux too closely. However, this is all academic if they don't make a PC-compatible version (which as previously noted != X86 version ). Rich