Actually, the switch to intel wasn't all that bad of a plan. The ppc line of processors was running out of upgradability, and the intel still has a lot of life in them. Thus, the switch was an attempt to remain competative in the general market. With the added bonus that you can now run windows on your mac (if you so choose to ruin such a good machine) That's the draw for most, a stable os that still allows execution of all your legacy software just in case you absolutely can't do without it. Personally, I have booted into xp roughly 3 times in the last year, so for me, the xp thing was only a nice to have, but definitely not a necessity. However, the conversion from ppc to intel went rather smoothly considering it was an entire os that got ported over (I know, linux is on several platforms and it works just fine) Well, now apple has proved it can be done with a commercial os as well. On Jun 5, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Alex Snow wrote: > Kind of lost interest when they went intel