What do you think of Apple now?
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I don't think it'll happen.
If Apple ports Mac OS 10 to the Intel architecture, it's going to be a matter of time before someone manages to hack it so that it works on those ugly beige boxes.
This is going to be a big threat to Apple's hardware business...
If Apple ports Mac OS 10 to the Intel architecture, it's going to be a matter of time before someone manages to hack it so that it works on those ugly beige boxes.
This is going to be a big threat to Apple's hardware business...
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Originally Posted by PeaceLove&S2K,May 24 2005, 02:01 PM
I don't think it'll happen.
If Apple ports Mac OS 10 to the Intel architecture, it's going to be a matter of time before someone manages to hack it so that it works on those ugly beige boxes.
This is going to be a big threat to Apple's hardware business...
If Apple ports Mac OS 10 to the Intel architecture, it's going to be a matter of time before someone manages to hack it so that it works on those ugly beige boxes.
This is going to be a big threat to Apple's hardware business...
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Hmm... I'm not so sure, Jack, John... I'm not sure how aware you guys are of the plethora of "legacy devices" that OS X would have to support in order to run on a PC. Porting to a PC environment would be very painful. Not saying it couldn't be done, though.
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Oh I agree. 
Most of the articles I've read on the subject point to that very thing when they look to the factors against the truth of this rumour.
OTOH... if they *did* port to Intel... how long would it take before someone hacked a fit of OSXI (I'm making that up) to run on a non Apple box. Hmmmm.
Most of the articles I've read on the subject point to that very thing when they look to the factors against the truth of this rumour.
OTOH... if they *did* port to Intel... how long would it take before someone hacked a fit of OSXI (I'm making that up) to run on a non Apple box. Hmmmm.
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Originally Posted by Chazmo,May 24 2005, 05:41 PM
Hmm... I'm not so sure, Jack, John... I'm not sure how aware you guys are of the plethora of "legacy devices" that OS X would have to support in order to run on a PC. Porting to a PC environment would be very painful. Not saying it couldn't be done, though.
But someone could easily put together a machine from hardware known to be compatible with Mac OS X x86.
Furthermore, if there's a certain piece of hardware that's very popular that's unsupported by Apple, it's just going to be a matter of time before some geek
writes a driver for it (it may even be the hardware manufacturer itself).Keep in mind, Darwin, the underlying OS of Mac OS X already runs on the x86 machines, with what imagine is a pretty decent hardware compatibility list (I could be wrong about this though). So if Apple decides to port Mac OS X to the x86 architecture, it'll just be a matter of porting the GUI (the thing that, IMO, differentiates the Mac OS X from all other UNIX flavors)
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Yeah, you're probably right, Jack.
One should cogitate on the fact that Apple keeping the platform "closed" is what let the PC take the lead from the Mac over the years. Hardware revenue in the desktop space is really not the best place to make money. I don't think Apple ever really understood that, and they really oughta' let go of that mindset (probably it's too late). The importance of the Mac in all its successive generations was its software, not its hardware.
OK, I'll give Apple a few points for all its hardware being truly plug 'n play (because it's "closed"), but it's the ease of use and consistent user interfaces that drew people to it.
One should cogitate on the fact that Apple keeping the platform "closed" is what let the PC take the lead from the Mac over the years. Hardware revenue in the desktop space is really not the best place to make money. I don't think Apple ever really understood that, and they really oughta' let go of that mindset (probably it's too late). The importance of the Mac in all its successive generations was its software, not its hardware.
OK, I'll give Apple a few points for all its hardware being truly plug 'n play (because it's "closed"), but it's the ease of use and consistent user interfaces that drew people to it.
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We might need to be thinking outside the processor box. 
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/05...pple/index.php
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/05...pple/index.php