Intel Based Motherboards for Power PC G5

Now that Apple has launched BootCamp, the program which allows an intel-based mac to run Windows, question is to those of us who bought a G5 last year will there be a motherboard upgrade to switch us over to the intel based machines once the desktop's are switched over? Or will we have to buy a whole new tower?

You are absolutely right. When I first got my Virtual PC, it got infected right away. Luckily it doesn't see the other side of the isle so none of my mac stuff was touched. I basically just deleted that Virtual PC and started over.
Of course I always wonder why people on the PC side of things put up with such nonsense. If you were truly troubled by all the viruses and trojan horses and worms you would think or actually demand that your computer company would fix it, instead you just take because you have to??? What you should do is stop buying software and machines that are prone to those problems forcing software companies to write for the other machine.
I wonder???

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