This seems like a rather odd reasoning to me: we cannot compete if we run on x86, but we can compete if we run on underpowered, overpriced hardware, with no option for people to try it out before buying?
When did people have option to try it out before buying? I never got to try it before buying my A500 way back in the good old days. There was no "free demo" hardware to borrow from Commodore to evaluate OS1.3 on before I paid up. I also do not know of a free demo of OSX before you buy a mac, or of a free demo of Windows before I buy a PC. I'd imagine that if I arranged for my own "free demo" of Vista or XP or OSX, that Microsoft or Apple would want a rather large settlement fee from me should they come to know about it... I don't understand your complaint on this.
