He says, "I proceeded to go through the Vista install just like any other Intel-based machine.

"The problem Apple has is that its Macintosh platform is not competitive on a price-performance ratio" with Intel-based machines, he said.

And apparently Intel-based machines can be as large as 360MB.

The Mac was well-suited for graphics and publishing tasks like page layout long before Intel-based machines were.

On January 10, 2006, the first Intel-based machines, the iMac and MacBook Pro, were introduced.

Sun introduced a line of Intel-based machines last year that come with both Linux and Solaris operating systems.

But Digital has had trouble selling it, in large part because it does not run all the software written for Intel-based machines.

What we have here is a (hopefully) detailed review of the BeOS R4 installation on Intel-based machines.

These programs run at about the speed of a 25 megahertz 486 PC, which is acceptable, though hardly a reason for users of Intel-based machines to switch.

The Power PC chip, currently available in some Macintosh computers, runs all Macintosh software and is capable of running some programs designed for Intel-based machines.