On Aug 24, 2005, at 2:35 AM, Chris Olson wrote: > Part of the attraction of running Apple hardware has always been > cutting edge hardware technology. Apple was the first to drop > floppy drives in favor of optical. Hard disk in a personal > computer, USB, Firewire, color displays, and the list goes on and > on over the years. And are you of the opinion that these advances were dependent upon Apple's choice of CPU? Certainly not. And Apple's continued development of new *hardware* technologies as we as some software technologies will not be stymied by a change in CPU. How many years is it now that Apple has had and INTEL version of OS X running in the lab? Come on. j mcd