<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Even people can now buy an IBM chip doesn't mean one can run OS X. Apple has always protected his makings. In the old days one had to copy a ROM to let OS 9 run on a PC.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Paul Moortgat</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 06 Jun 2005, at 23:11, Steve Talkowski wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Jun 6, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Apple will always have proprietary chips.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It's just an Intel chip working with specific Apple chips.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You can't run X on PC.</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Huh?!<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Not according to Steve himself.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for Intel for the past 5 years.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">“As a matter of fact, this system I’ve been using here…” the keynote’s been running on a P4 3.6GHz all morning”</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-Steve_______________________________________________</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>