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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by ASM65816: [QB] From a technology point of view, running Mac OS X on Intel machines is fairly "simple," and Mac OS X when released for an Intel machine will probably have as many bugs as 10.4.0 had. In terms of function and operations, Unix, Linux, and Darwin are essentially the same. QuickTime and iTunes demonstrated Apple's ability to port to Intel. How much different is the Mac OS X GUI from KDE and GNOME? Is it "impossible" to get "Mac-like" behavior from them? Or the better question is: can KDE and GNOME gain widespread acceptance as products which provide the reliability and effectiveness that business demands? [QUOTE] Originally posted by Tom-geeking around: Well -- I am glad that Apple switches to Intel. Good thing.. [/QUOTE]The market is where Apple could find itself with "the best product in the world" and no money to pay their debts. I would really like to know Steve's projections of how much more revenue the Intel switch will bring. I hope he doesn't think that Apple can make cheaper Intel machines than companies that have a decade or more of experience, and still make an acceptable profit. What if developers are encouraged to develop for the Mac OS X on Intel, and they discover that it's not so hard to make their products work under Linux, where they can get a market "a hundred times" larger? What if M$ Office on the Intel Mac is perfect, but costs $350 to put on the new machine because there's a "disagreement" on licensing of bundled software? Or M$ could "balk" on Office development: "ya' know, this product only ships to 0.09% of the market ... maybe if [b] you [/b] financed it, we could finish a little sooner." Can Apple afford an entire year where hardware sales are down 35% from the previous year and still finance a manufacturing shift to a significantly different product? This scares me, but I guess I can always use Linux or FreeBSD...... :ohwell: [/QB][/QUOTE]