"PA Semi, a company that specialises in making the most of Brit chip shop ARM's low draw yet very capable CPU blueprints."

They specialized in making the most of a certain Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance's PowerPC chips, before Apple bought them out... ['Proving' that Intel was the only way to go, right? No decent PowerPC chips left, no-siree..]

From Tom's Hardware And I Quote:
"It seemed that all the panic may be unwarranted, however, as Intel Atom support is back in the latest (10C535) build of Mac OS X 10.6.2. It's unclear as to what Apple was playing around with from version to version, but those with Hackintosh computers get a new glimmer of hope."

You guys crack me up. jeez, get a life.

Apple builds cases, and develops software for their cases. Main difference between my Studio XPS and my Macbook Pro? The case.

What you don't get about it is the fact that with opening up os x to general pc devices means you need to support them which means it would become another windows like os which needs to deal with different varieties of hw and support them. apple makes hw and sw for their hw, get over it :) and get a mac :P

...that they don't seem to understand what a cash cow they have in their barn.

If Apple released Mac OS X for general PC devices, they'd at a stroke make massive inroads into Windows.

At the same time, sales of Apple hardware would drop, sure, but not all that much. The current crowd of Mac-heads would remain loyally buying Apple kit, but they'd be joined by a whole new group of both home users and business people desperate to get away from MS's stranglehold.

And the best thing of all, from Apple's viewpoint, is that it costs practically nothing to press and ship DVDs.

Unlike hardware sales, which need a constant and VERY expensive design, development and production pipeline, OS sales are almost entirely margin, and don't have all the WEEE/green/certification problems that hang off electronics manufacture.

I just want to see the AAPL share ticker when they finally see the light. There's never been a better time for Apple to liberalise and liberate their OS assets.

the legalities, I'd like me a cheap netbook sort-a-thing with os x on it. Does anyone think there'd be a market for it? -a real one, os x.

Like, I go to the local computer emporium, pick one I like the colour of and the guy in the checkout asks: So, would you like Windows or OS X with that sir?

..to get news, opinions, and speculations about Apple from someone who doesn't seem to have some vendetta against them.

I don't know if you like,dislike, or don't care about Apple (and frankly don't care) - the quality of Stewart's articles are tenfold better than Nick and you can at least consider his speculations and opinions whether or not you agree with him.

Keep up the good work!

With the EFI bios-in-a-file used by most Hackintoshes, or by using an boot.plist, you can tell OS X you're running whatever CPU you say! Which means you can run an Atom-based box and tell OS X you're running an old Core-2 duo that doesn't have Virtualization. OS X won't know the difference.

I do find amusing the comments that the hackers make at other websites. They all start with the phrase, "Apple has no right."

The biggest is that Apple has no right to protect themselves from people who would steal from them.

The second is that the EULA is nothing but a contract and contracts are meaningless in America. That contract binds Apple, but not the hackers.

The third is that Apple gave up the right to protect, themselves, long ago, by not acting against Hackintoshes.

The fourth is that Apple is morally reprehensible when it starts protecting its rights. This is when they say the phrase, "How dare Apple do this."

In short, they are acting like snotty kids who's long suffering parents have laid down the law. They deserve a whipping at the minimum.

Atom is just as fast as Pentium M's now in use by millions of happy users. This is obviously not about performance. Apple makes these decisions to protect its market.

So, whens it's tablet (new iphone/pod) being released. Thats what Appo are working towards - a multi device with touch screen to replace netbbooks and supersede its other fan boy toys?

Slates are the future!!!