>>Really like your thinking on this. <<
I got to thinking a bit more about this, after I read some newsgroups on it.
I'd bet part of Windows problem with being so 'buggy' and 'crashing' all the time has more to do with hardware than it does software.
Windows will work on essentially anything (1000's of hardware options). Macs are programmed for all of about 4 options in hardware. IF you develop the code for specific hardware (I/O ports, IRQ, etc) then you can probably make it much more stable. Whereas, if you put core code on a custom machine, with unlimited options, you run the chance of something not always working stable.
Maybe that's why Apple has always sold their hardware/software as a combo and never seperate.
Either way, I'd love to try out Mac OS on an Intel machine. I'm thinking of trying Darwin just for the heck of it.
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