"Well since Mac is now using Intel it will not be long before they are no longer making an OS either and Windows will be their platform or at least a flavor of it. And they will make a Mac shell." You must have read that article... This simply won't happen, the mac os is the only reason apple has a larger market share than boxx, alienware etc. And since windows ripped off apple's first OS, there's some bad blood there and steve jobs is not a man who forgets. This is the keynote adress for the orignal macintosh, and as you begin watching it you'll understand why apple will never ship windows with its machines: Lost 1984 videos It's also a blast to watch, very very fun. Also, that video has been around for about four years, he seems to be referring to using mac OS 9...and he rides the short bus. I think the intel switch will generate a lot more business for apple. It brings prices down, brings power up (at least for the low and midrange machines), and people will figure out how to put windows on it as an aftermarket choice (apple and microsoft both said they wouldn;t take steps to disallow it, but neither officially support it), so a LOT of people will be dual booting windows and OSX on the same machine. I think this will prompt a few of the big PC-only apps to consider a port to OSX when users write in and tell them they want to have a universal version of the application to use wherever, once they get used to OSX. These big players being softimage and 3dsmax...i'm not familiar with any other major CG software that won't run.