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This doesn't necessarily mean that OS X will run on any intel x86 platform. While the OS has been cross-platform developed for year now, that doesn't mean the hardware drivers to support a complete system have been. And I'm talking consumer hardware more than system hardware.
Besides that... if Apple lets this run on any x86 platform, given the amount of these products in the market, it would pretty effectively turn them into primarily a software company. Which I'm not convinced that's really where they want to be (I won't take credit for that observation... it was made by a friend of mine).
I think you'll see more innovative products from Apple based on the x86 architectured system. Hopefully they'll take the x86 somewhere that only a proprietary hardware company can take it, and that'll get ported over to mainstream (where nobody can innovate because it all has to work together).
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