so you will forsake computers altogether or is it Ubuntu for you? I'll assume that was just a violent and uncontrolled overreaction yes? Many people will not get a mac because of one or two pieces of proprietary software that they need to use and boot camp and virtual machines scare them so they stay with what they know will work. WINE has always been a good idea and the security problems people are scared of can't affect the system like it can with Windoze, because it is, you know a "house built on a weak foundation" which OS X is not (as badly anyway, there is always a crack or two even in the best pour of concrete). So take a chill pill, Dell is tanking, more will follow as all they can offer is a clunky sieve-like system that no one wants… makes me think that when they are all down and out Steve will offer up a PC version of OS X that would only run and be supported on "qualified" machines to avoid the hardware and driver h*** in that market. After some time no one in their right mind would pay more for a Dell or Gateway iMac knockoff that actually costs more and does less. You have to guide the lemmings slowly.

if there were parity in the API's between Mac and Windows, this would not be a good thing. However, the ability to use your Windows version, while waiting for the Core * enabled version that can easily be developed in a fraction of the time as the actual Windows version.

Sorry, but two problems with that. One, you make the assumption that the developers would just GIVE you the Mac upgrade to the software once it becomes available. And, more importantly, that you actually think they would make a Mac version.

Why would a developer waste resources on updating it's software for mac when it already runs on a mac? They all don't have tons of money to spend on projects.

But then you get into the biggest problem. WINE has been around for years, and it still doesn't run all Windows software. If Apple were to actually make this feature, they'd have to either specifically certify each Windows app and announce that (like Crossover does) or put ever-increasing resources into supporting apps as they come about.

And, peter, besides the API transfer being more rumor then fact, there's been a lot of additions to it since that occurred. But, beyond that, most mac users would probably argue that the only windows apps worth running are games.

Why would a developer waste resources on providing a Windows version, when everyone in the world will own a MAC?

Doofuses.

@Guest, is this an EFI console? This would indeed solve some problems when i upgrade to an Intel Mac, tx.

@testudo. Some rumors are so persistent they always seem to be true, this is one of them. That said, this is probably just an early implementation to support the .NET runtime environment and nothing more. I'l have to agree that we won't see full API support anytime soon.

I work at a very large corporation (more than 50,000 employees). You could count the number of Macs on one hand prior to Intel.

Now, Macs have taken over whole departments. That's not to say that they're in the majority - far from it. But they simply would not be an option at all if not for VMWare and Parallels. I develop .NET code in MSVS using VMWare. Needless to say, there's no way I could do that on the Mac without the ability to run Windows.