How about because of the fact that they promised Quark there would be some good-quality OS-9 bootable Macs available in 2003 until they got their rear in gear to release Quark on OS X? I expect a similar thing to happen with the G4 towers at some point, probably keeping the Dual 1.25 GHz around, while creating some new OS X-only machines to improve the line for those of us that can stick to just OS X. John Griffin <jwegriffin at mac.com> writes: > I stand by my claim that the release of the 1 Ghz 15" Powerbooks was a > way > of reducing Titanium PB parts inventory - pure and simple. Why else > would > they do this with the 17" Aluminium Powerbook waiting in the wings? Kynan Shook kshook at mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/kshook/index.html