The world turns backwards?

[The Former DMiller]

Mac OS X is completely backwards compatible with previous versions of the OS. I still play all of my old games in OS X. It's pretty much a minimal install of the old OS, but OS 9 and earlier programs have no problems running in OS X. I don't know why you've heard Apple isn't good on backwards compatiblity. The methods they will use for software emulation on the new Intel machines are supposedly going to be completely invisible to the user, which is the best you can ask for.

And after reading a lot on this news I found out that Windows will run on the new Intel Macs, but OS X will not run on non-Macs. Now I'm sure no one is going to buy a Mac to just run Windows on, but having a computer with one partition with Windows and another with OS X is an incredible opportunity. You can have an awesome OS and then an OS to use for playing games. It does scare me a little, though, as some developers may stave off Mac development since they can just tell their customers to buy the Windows version, but I don't think many important developers will do that and the benefits far outweight the drawbacks.