you can feed it Fancy Feast, but it's still a dog
Windows or Mac? Apple Says Both - New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5 — After long imploring computer users to "think different" and defining the Macintosh as a lone bulwark against the Windows onslaught, Apple Computer has decided to open the gate, at least a bit.Two decades after the first Mac arrived, Apple said Wednesday that it would offer users of its latest models a simple way to run the Microsoft Windows operating system as well as its own.
That means a single Apple computer will run programs written for either the Mac or Windows, though it will have to shut down one system to start the other.
As someone said, in one move Apple has gone from "It Just Works" to "What the hell is wrong with this thing?"
My guess is that very few consumers will be drawn in by this, although it will be a boon for folks forced to use Windows apps for work, etc.
Both of my computers now dual-boot Linux and Windows, and every time I boot into XP (which is about once a week) I realize how much I hate Windows. It's really not rational, because I long ago figured out how to make XP as solid as it can be, but it's just an ugly, stupid system. It's also appreciably slower than Linux. Even my mouse works better in Linux, and it was designed for XP. Go figure.
Ninety percent of home computer users would be better off, and much happier, using OS X.