Well, give me a long weekend and what do I get done? Not yardwork, that's for sure...


I managed to get the Mac OS X Intel edition developer kit software (we're legal, relax) to load on my IBM Thinkpad T42p, not to my complete satisfaction, but definitely operational.


The video is pretty low-res, only 1024x768 so far, but I'm working on it, the ethernet card is the only valid netowrking device, no wireless, nor do I see 10.4.3 working with wireless, but I have heard that 10.4.4 is likely to work properly with certain third-party cards.


I press the F-keys and the proper things happen, DVD's and CD's are read properly, I can connect and do the usual things on the web. iTunes is an older and about to expire version, so I'll see what I can do to update it, ie: download the power version and install it to run under Rhapsody, er, Evolution, um, Rosetta, whatever the hell they call the translation software...


I have it running in VMWare also, with full functionality, 1400x1050 resolution, same problem with iTunes, and it's definitely not running at full speed. So it's possible, and even likely that Apple will see a lot more people running OS X on Intel than they did run on the Power boxes, but obviously not supported.


The other issue that I see happening is that we'll probably be triple-booting OS X, SUSE and Win XP/Vista if it's even remotely possible. I will be dual-booting OS X and SUSE Linux 10.2 (which they have reported will load and run and integrates very closely with the iMac Intel, and probably will with the MacBook Pro.


I've ordered the MacBook Pro, (about 2 minutes after he announced it) and will post impressions of it when it arrives. I definitely expect some glitches and early adopter kvetching to occur, but my time utilization has dropped to below 100% lately, so it's time to play with something else for a change..


Ross