hmm, I think that it's unlikely that Apple will release it's OS to the standard beige box,
it's also unlikely that apple zellots will want a beige box over their swichly designed apple boxes.
A big parts of apples success is that they have been so neich, they have a really stable OS, but a big part of that success is that they controll all the hardware,
I mean if microsoft could personally test every piece of hardware and then write the drivers for it I'm sure there would be a lot less problems.
It could be that apple are bitting off more than they can chew here.
The OS is already leaked, and people are installing it to regular x86 machines, how long before people start searching for exploits, how long before they are found?
I mean Mac have something of an unhackable reputation.
How long before someone decides to write drivers for their wintel USB modem, how long before others follow suit,
after that how long before we start to see blue screens of death?
leaving the comfort of designing their own chips and motherboards might just be too much of a bold step, Apple could see themselves in serious trouble...
or of course I might be wrong.