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Originally Posted by Andy A.
It just blows my mind that finally, after something like 20 years, Apple is opening up it's hardware.
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Its not too shocking when you think about it. They were forced to go to Intel by the PPC Chips. IBM just couldn't give what apple wanted, a G5 you could put in a powerbook. From day one i heard that there would be Intel macs, i knew OSX and XP would be interchangeable both on PCs and Macs. The thought of XP running on a powerbook, and OSX running on pc hardware is just too tempting to pass up. Even if it OSX on pc hardware isn't exactly legal or supported, it still works.
Essentially, Apple just made a brilliant chess move. By legitimizing the XP on intel mac hardware and giving the full set of mac drivers, they did three major things.
First, now professional users who are stuck using XP boxes for various thing have the ability to switch without much effort.
Second, it gives mac users who have yet to adopt the intel macs due to software incompatibilities (Think Adobe CS2) a reason to upgrade and still be able to use their software in a native OS, while waiting for native OSX86 support.
Third, you will have strict PC users start to look at the better designed and built hardware that Apple provides.
Apple also gets a nice side benefit of being able to grab home users who might feel comfortable with XP, but want to try the imacs or mac minis for there cost. Slowly these users might even migrate over to OSX.
You know what i REALLY want to see? a macbook tablet. I'm very addicted to my tabletPC but would unload this thing on ebay in a heartbeat if heard one was coming out. I'm sure alot of graphics professionals would also love to see one come out. And now with bootcamp, i would have the best of both worlds!