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Yes, I know - my dad's an Apple fanatic. Then again he's an engineer with more icons on his screen to oversee the innards of his favorite toy than actual applications he runs. So I know Leopard can run Windows programs these days. In theory. In practice computer gamers are the folks who buy new computers because the need the power to run the latest games. And those games don't always run very well on native Windows PCs much less on the Apple. Some do. Some don't. It's a crapshoot from what I've read.
If all folks need is to surf the internet, send mail and look at their photo albums or run numbers through spreadsheets they don't need much in the way of power. So who is all this power for? All the video editors out there? I don't think so.
It's for gamers. While PC gamers are a smaller bunch than console gamers we're still part of a huge industry and we're also the early adopters for PCs.
So if Apple wants us it better get some good games that are created for Apple PCs. Because we're not going to wait a couple years for a fraction of the titles available on the PC to filter over to the Apple.
