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Apple has always favored tight integration between hardware and software. That means that each machine they built, they know the _exact_ specs off, and thus know what drivers are needed. If they were to be like MS and just sell OS X like Windows, you'd lose the tight integration. Mixing and matching hardware though sexy(to the technologically inclined) does have it's drawbacks, especially when you look at how most of the instability on Windows is caused by device drivers.
I do not understand why people think that just because Apple is switching processors, it means that it'll be just like any other PC. As lurk has pointed out, you can bet Intel and Apple will have some sort of DRM on it.
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