Well, Jobs demonstrated a version of X 10.4.1 on a quad 3.75 Ghz Pentium machine. Does such a machine exist in the Windows world? On 6-Jun-05, at 2:06 PM, Paul H. Yoshimune wrote: > Ugh. I hope Apple manages to keep the hardware platform "closed", > such that > MacOS only runs on their certified machines. The whole reason I > like Apple > (and Sun, for that matter) is that they write the OS and make the > hardware - no > need to worry about why things don't work on a Dell POS-30, much > less a > whitebox homebrew setup than someone cobbled together for $85.99. > Things just > work. If they hope to have MacOS/x86 run on any old Intel box, > it's going to > be *really* ugly... > --- The new OS will be Leopard! Good name for a company that keeps changing its spots! jg