Everyone,
I'm still watching the mailing list. Everything that has been said about OS X and the mac was pretty much what i knew or in keeping with what i thought as well, so why add extra blather.
Your news about the native Windows environment, is new to me! :) Do you have a link to this? (Maybe send it offline as i think we may verge on off-topicness.) I think this WOULD be great for the Xy people and anyone using Win(DOS) based apps.
My wife and i haven't yet ventured to Leopard, mostly because we have machines that are working well (mine is running Final Cut Pro and you really don't like to change that system when everything is working). Her machine, 1st Gen Intel Mac Book, could probably make the transition to Leopard without mishap.
As for the Dragon Naturally Speaking stuff, i have tried that on a Windows machine, and DID have success with getting it to work with XY.
You may want to also look at Mac Speech. For their Intel only version, they have liscensed the Dragon Naturally Speaking engine to finally give Mac Users a much better voice recognition engine. (I have the software, but don't yet have a machine to use it on!) :(
Russ