On 05/10/2007, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: Yep. Although to be fair, I have few Macs so old they can't run MacOS 8.1 and it networks happily with Tiger boxes over TCP/IP. But yes, I entirely agree. OTOH, Apple's market now is x86 boxes and its competition is Windows. A Macintel can dual-boot to Windows or run it in a fairly seamless VM. With the best will in the world, to most people - including, I must reluctantly admit, me - that is (or would be) vastly more use than running MacOS 9 in a VM! I happily run Linux, but if money were no object, I'd be on OS X on a Mac Pro, with Wine for a few legacy Windows apps - or possibly Parallels Desktop, as it's cheap and it runs Windows seamlessly - i.e. Windows apps' windows merged with OS X apps on the same shared desktop. On a quad-core or octo-core machine with 4G of RAM, I could afford a copy of W2K in a VM. I'd never notice the load, I'm sure. The thing that saddens me is that if you do this, you suddenly have to do all that tired old dancing around with legions of MS updates and antivirus and antispyware and so on in Windows on your nice clean safe Mac. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat: liamproven at aol.com ? MSN/Messenger: lproven at hotmail.com Yahoo: liamproven at yahoo.co.uk ? Skype: liamproven ? ICQ: 73187508