[Bush2000]

Bottom line: since the PC platform stuff is SO, SO much cheaper than the Apple stuff, and the software is CLOSE ENOUGH, Apple will have a marketshare problem and be stuck as an also ran.

The Apple partisans will take issue with this statement but there's no disputing the fact that you and I can upgrade our boxes for a couple hundred dollars and have a new motherboard and CPU.

[dheretic]

I don't recall PC users being able to do the equivalent of bumping a system from a single G3 300 to a Dual G4 500 without scrapping the mobo.