> The Mac has always been the software, not the hardware. The Intel Mac is > a new hardware platform, just as the PCI Macs were different from the > NuBus Macs, and the PowerPC Macs different from the 68000 Macs, and Mac > II was completely different from the original Mac. Who cares? But the software has completely changed too. It's no longer the elegantly designed Mac OS 9 but the bloated Mac OS X.