While Vista may not be able to scale in a way that it can run on such a low power device, we know that Mac OS X can (e.g. the iPhone and iPod touch). Apple could build a true "appliance" to attack the markets that some of the posters in the article (search for "first" as in "first world governments") talk about.

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