John C. Dvorak writes in his column for PC Magazine that a new Mactel machine with Mac OSX's underlying UNIX system could scream past Microsoft's Windows PCs in tests. See http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1824704,00.asp That would seem to indicate that the Mac OS would not be sacrificed in the switch to Intel chips. Timothy D. Naegele www.naegele.com