architosh.com — An interesting news item on the Net aligned with a previously published statement about Apple's ultimate intentions behind the Intel switch. A reliable source had told Architosh prior to the highly anticipated Apple WWDC event earlier that Steve Jobs would make an announcement that would be ultimately about expanding Macintosh market share.
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Closed AccountNov 9, 2005
I bought my girlfriend a mac mini after hearing so many good things about OS X. She's happy with it, but personally, I can't stand using it. Too many bells and whistles, and too dumbed down I feel (yes I know I could use the command line, but I don't have time to master that). So hopefully this is true, so that I can run windows2000 on a sexy powerbook!
Closed AccountNov 9, 2005
>Ain't gonna happen. At least not for many (MANY) years. I wouldn't be too>surprised to see Apple revisit the idea of licensing to clone makers some day.>But just selling their OS in a box? Nope.not so sure. licencing the clones almost killed them. the Mac OS was always free.they are a hardware manufacturer. they've been trying to position more as a softwareproducer since jobs came back. no... i think that they are positioning to be morelike microsoft. make programs. good ones. my guess is that intel has agreed to build a chip that windows can't use... a chip that will be state of the art and allthe geeks must have. :) then... they will be positioned to licence OS X... well...checkmate.
16x9Nov 9, 2005
wrote: "not so sure. licencing the clones almost killed them. ... i think that they are positioning to be morelike microsoft. make programs. good ones."Please don't misunderstand me, I think that the idea of bringing Mac clones back to life would be a huge mistake. And I'm not suggesting that they will. However, I'd be even more surprised to see Apple become a software company. At least for the foreseeable future.The day may come when Apple transitions from hardware to software but if this ever does happen it won't be for several more years at least.But hell, I'm no prognosticatin' wizard. Who honestly would have thought that Apple would move to Intel chips. Sure, there were a lot of people who believed it to be a good idea (that, or a move to AMD). But few people actually thought they'd have the fortitude to make such a gutsy move. So who really knows what they'll do.
kgcNov 9, 2005
Running two OS's as primary and secondary OS's (at the same time) seems awesome...
svpirateNov 9, 2005
This is the second time someone has posted this news. I'll say what I said before. This is *NOT* an OS war. It's a hardware war. Apple are trying to take sales off people like Dell, Sony, Gateway and the like, not OS companies like Microsoft (although there may be some element of 'introducing OS X to the masses along the way), by making their machines run more OSs more easily. This is a tactic to sell COMPUTERS not OS X.Think about it. If you have a MacIntel with a copy of XP, the inlcuded copy of OS X and a GNU Linux installed on it you can run practically any x86 app on the planet. If they can do it in some way that runs seamless, co-habiting Virtual Machines on one computer with a feature to switch between them the 'platform war' between PC and Mac will practically evaporate over night.This isn't Apple's first shot a trying to get PC stuff to run aloingside Mac OS. In the mid-90s they did a line of PC bridgeboards and CPU add-ins for Macs that allowed then to run DOS/Win3.1, and laterly Windows 95/98 alongside Mac OS and all you had to do to switch between them was hit a button on the Mac or Windows desktop. Damn neat. If The new Intel Macs have that functionality for Windows, OS X and Linux you'll have to tie me to something very heavy to stop me running to buy one!
cabazorroNov 9, 2005
Apple seem to think that Windows Vista is going to go along with their plan of being demoted into a virtual machine existence.If OS X won't run virtually in some generic PC box space, what makes them think that MS will let Vista run on virtual space of some of the Apple exclusive hardware. MS will move to embed itself in the hardware "committed" to support MS. It is expected.
ciphexNov 9, 2005
it's kinda wild... Apple makes a move... everybody makes postulationd and tosses out opinions.everyone has a different reason for why they will like it...but noone hates it. really now... how many times do you see ideas that noone hates?(for those of you dying to contradict... save it.)
jsteneNov 10, 2005
"Apple will begin to sell Intel Mac's pre-bundled with OS X and Windows". Just imagine what impact it would have on Microsoft once everyone begins to see and experience how much better Mac OS is than Windows. Talk about a full assault on Microsoft! :-)