[Reid]

I actually wonder whether or not Apple has a team working quietly on gaining driver compatibility for a much wider range of PC hardware. It seems from the groundswell of blog posts like this that it's been exceptionally easy for people to hack Leopard onto a PC compared to Tiger, and that more hardware-related features "just work" than they did with previous hacks.

I was almost expecting them, last month at the Leopard launch, to announce that the upgrade was not, indeed, just for Apple computers, but that you could install it on any Vista-compatible PC as well. That would have been a coup for the ages, especially given Apple's current marketing of Leopard.

I know Apple is making boatloads of cash off of its hardware, but I can't help wondering if the time isn't finally right to launch an all-out offensive against Windows by opening up the hardware requirements on Mac OS to non-Apple PCs. They certainly have the media on their side this time around.