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hi Josh.

*waves*

so what is this?

I think if Apple can hold on to it's security,

Nope. With it now on x86 its gonna be a hell of a lot easier for viruses to get on it. It was safer on PPC as it was such a small niche, hackers didn't consider it worth targetting. It shouldn't be too difficult to make a virus that executes on ...

G6? You won't be seeing G-anything in Apples now. Will all be Pentiums and the like.

No, it doesn't. ;) There's this little thing called OpenFirmware, which Macs use instead of a BIOS. I'm willing to bet that if a montherboard doesn't support OpenFirmware, it won't boot OS X.

How long do you think it'll be before people reverse engineer that and release emulation layers?
Not ...

source?