It's about the money, stupid... (Score 1)

Someone please tell me how this is going to make Apple money? What, if there was a cheap box to run OSX on, you all would become mac users? And you would Purchase the software? - for how much? I hear lots of whining from those who are not macintosh about the cost of Apple hardware, but really now, how much have you spent on hardware in the last 5 years? I spent $2000 on a MAC clone, a 604/150 and I'm just now thinking of buying a G4, why? 'cause I like OSX and this machine isn't likely to go there. Do I need a new computer? Hell no, this machine will throw around a 200 Megabyte Photoshop file with no difficulty - hell of a lot faster than a PIII I had the misfortune to be working on. What's that, My power computing machine is out of date? Yeah, I'm really taxing it, editing a bit of video and audio, doing some flash, photoshop, and web design - for what I'm doing, the newest, fastest G4 wouldn't give me much more than a 10% increase in efficiency - is that worth 3k? So, by making sure OSX won't run on my machine, Apple is forcing me to buy new hardware... that's a good thing from their perspective. Am I pissed? No, I think that 2 grand or so every five years make sense for the tools of my profession, and I'm pretty excited by what I've seen of OSX so far. Would I buy an x86 box if there was a version of OSX on it, heck no, I want to get work done, and that's what Mac's have always been for - I've got some x86 hardware around with linux on em to play with, but when I want something done, I go to the mac. Steve Jobs is just as capable of screwing up as the next guy - and what's more, he's started to admit it, and I like that. But look at his record lately, and say, he's doing okay so far.