Today brought another victory in my perverse quest to turn my Windows XP into an OS X machine. I've already gotten StyleXP to give myself the OS X Pather skin (check out Studio28 for more great skins), and installed ObjectDock, a Windows XP response to the Dock. Today I stumbled onto Kapsules, which is the Windows XP response to Konfabulator (which impressed Apple so much that they decided to murder it by bundling the upcoming Tiger update with Dashboard). What is left? Can I find a Finder and roll with iTunes? In the process of doing research for this post I stumbled onto a great Engadget post on how to turn your PC into a Mac. I appears I've got work to do. Of course I could just cheat and roll with CherryOS, which is a full-blown G4 emulator, creating a genuine OS X system which runs, ala Virtual PC, only it's a Mac. It's only a matter of time before some 1337 h4Xx0r rolls out a screen shot of a Windows box emulating a Mac box emulating a Windows box emulating a Mac box emulating an XBox. Jokes aside, CherryOS boasts 80% efficiency, which implies that my 3 Ghz P4 will perform like a 2.4 Ghz G4 (!?!?). This would be very interesting if true, and definitely warrants a few benchmark tests.

On the other hand, I'm not very impressed with iTunes and have resisted it along with the trendy and overpriced iPod. My 30 GB Zen Nomad Xtra was $50 cheaper than the iPod Mini and has 7.5 times the Mini's 4 GB storage capacity.