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You're making yourself perfectly clear. They're not trying to do their own thing. I just don't think that IBM and Apple are going to stop because other companies don't jump on the bandwagon. They're going to continue whether other companies join or not. Some have already joined, and more will follow. Whether or not other companies adopt the PowerPC chip will have not effect Apple sales. The real question there is whether or not the migration path that Apple is trying to build will allow their current software base to run on the new machines. If they succeed in doing that, the machines will succeed because people will buy them, just as they do other Apple products. Now, as to IBM…. No telling with them. 🙂 I think the real key here is what Microsoft will do. If they offer the same sort of software migration path, hardware companies will follow. Steve