>look at it this way... >if there wasn't Microsoft or intel then most likely our computers would >still be slow and stupid and we wouldn't have +1 gig cpus coming out now >there would be very little compitition going around... The Motorola/Apple/IBM partnership looks like its doing fine. Btw, you intel guys with 1ghz cpus...us G4 guys have 500MHz computers that top 1.2BIPS already. :)