It's not for the DRM they switched. Come 2007 there is going to be loads of cheap, very powerful PC technology on the market (to support Longhorn - 6ghz, 1Tb HD, 2GB ram, etc minimum spec) and IBM simply didn't have anything to match that. Apple in that market with weak hardware would be doomed.
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It's not for the DRM they switched. Come 2007 there is going to be loads of cheap, very powerful PC technology on the market (to support Longhorn - 6ghz, 1Tb HD, 2GB ram, etc minimum spec) and IBM simply didn't have anything to match that. Apple in that market with weak hardware would be doomed.