1. Apple wouldn't have to water cool a pair of Xeons. 2. Apple would have a reliable second source of supply (AMD). 3. What fool would buy commercial Linux box if OS X ran on something other than a Mac? 4. OS X on x86 would push developers to higher standards of quality and usability, just as it has done on the Mac. 5. Apple is staying in hardware, so it's certain that Apple will still innovate on design. Rememb 1. Apple wouldn’t have to water cool a pair of Xeons.2. Apple would have a reliable second source of supply (AMD).3. What fool would buy commercial Linux box if OS X ran on something other than a Mac? 4. OS X on x86 would push developers to higher standards of quality and usability, just as it has done on the Mac.5. Apple is staying in hardware, so it’s certain that Apple will still innovate on design. Remember, all Apple bought from IBM was the PowerPC 970FX CPU. Apple designed the rest. No, they really, really did. And they can do the same with Intel.6. OS X running in a virtual machine under Windows (or Linux) would inherit all of Windows’ (or Linux’s) device drivers. 7. Windows XP is an operating system, a game of solitaire, a file explorer and a pinball demo. Doesn’t that just, like, make you cry?8. The death of arcane Open Firmware.8. 100,000 people at WWDC 2006. 9. Finally, some Mac-related listings on hotjobs.10. Free and FINE Dev tools that can use anything (Intel, GNU, Pathscale) as a back end. And the docs, and the sample code, and…11. Red Hat. ——– Technology Industry