Well said, Chris! Time to remove the blinders and start to see things as they really are free from the hype and spin that Apple seems intent on trying to feed us. jg On 9-Jul-05, at 10:52 AM, Chris Olson wrote: > For me, the bottom line is that when PowerBooks are no longer > available with PowerPC processors there's no reason to buy an Apple > machine any longer. Might as well buy a Dell because they can > build and sell the same thing Apple will be selling cheaper. Jon > Lech Johansen will have OS X running on any x86 computer you want > to run it on despite Apple's best efforts to use hardware-based > controls to keep it off cheap Dells, so that's not even a > consideration.