I've gotten things to work fine on Vista, though there was a certain iPod shuffle that I could not sync with the iTunes library on Vista RC1.

I've got a device on which these videos would play (A Zen Vision), but I'll have to stay away from this service. I purchased a video online once with the same set of restrictions for $10 just to experiment with it. Later I needed to install Windows 2003 on my machine (it had XP) and that's when I found there was no way to back the movie up. If you ever reinstall windows you will loose this content.

As for DVD ripping, if we ignore for a moment the fact that it's illegal it's not a sure fire way to get the content off of the DVDs. Some software has had varrying success with DVDs that use additional protection technologies.

I'm not using an iPod but I do have a video capable PMP. I never thought about my video habits until I read this article, but I only use it to play video when I am travelling via plane and want to catch up on my TV shows, which isn't that often.

You ***CAN*** download and install the zune software without purchasing a Zune

http://www.zune.net/en-us/meetzune/software.htm

Note: It does not [yet] work on anything other than Windows XP. If you have Vista or Windows 2003 Server it will not work.

I can understand Adobe's decision. If nothing else the Endian issue creates great challenges. The G5 series of chips actually dropped some of the functionality for dealing with little-Endian numbers that the G4 had and that caused significant delays in the release of VirtualPC for Mac when the G5 was released.

To Kiantech in post #1, the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme edition supported 64 bit operations as do the Core 2 extreme processors.

See http://www.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/ for more details.

It now takes much longer for my xbox to boot up.

More than one I saw a question on when a product will be available for windows xp to run Mac OS X. While technically there exists programs with which some one could do this I don't think a complete packaged solution will ever be released [commercially]. Apple would surely bring down their hammer of justice on any entity trying to produce such a thing. If you want an example do a google search on Maxxuss and how apple reacted to his postings of how to run OSX natively on a PC. Apple sent out nice little legal letters that resulted in several sites being offline for a few days while all links to such information were removed...

More than one I saw a question on when a product will be available for windows xp to run Mac OS X. While technically there exists programs with which some one could do this I don't think a complete packaged solution will ever be released [commercially]. Apple would surely bring down their hammer of justice on any entity trying to produce such a thing. If you want an example do a google search on Maxxuss and how apple reacted to his postings of how to run OSX natively on a PC. Apple sent out nice little legal letters that resulted in several sites being offline for a few days while all links to such information were removed...

To #2, virtual machines are not immune to viruses. Part of full emulation is also being vulnerable to them.