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Cringely: OS X on Intel
sti writes: "Cringely's column this week argues that Apple should port OS X to the Intel platform. He makes an interesting case for it. I would definitely favour this. I've always had this warm spot in my heart for Apple but rarely had the money to pay for their overpriced hardware."
Only if you assume that those using Mac spend ZERO time tinkering with their own beasties.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
What, no Linux kernel, well let's dig out another dood who wants OS X ported to Intel and will never get what a SYSTEM is about. OS X is OS matching hardware and usability.
As soon as you stop building crap with IRQs and BIOS instead of OpenFirmware etc. they might think about it.
Until then (and likely thereafter) You will get what You pay for.
By the way, when will Porsche build front wheel driven cars, so I can pick out the engine and put it into a SMART?
If You dont want it, dont buy it, if you want it cheaper, just go ahead and make one on your own or start off with a free project and make it usable. But these silly articles about OS X in Intel dont help anybody unless Apple says something (new) about this subject.
Offering OS X for x86 hardware would kill-off Apple's own hardware-division. Perhaps Apple could survive on it's own software-division, if Microsoft would not see such a thing as a declaration of war.
Bringing out OS X on x86 would give Microsoft a legal excuse for giving a death-blow to Apple, as Apple would be a competitor for Redmond, rather than a place where you can get some nice ideas to implement in your own products.
Apple likes it's 5 percent market-share on the desktop, and hopes to get some extra percents perhaps. But I'm sure they'll be cautious not to wake up the giant.
"Honey, I feel a certain distance between us..." "Really? A 31ms ping ain't that bad..."
Apple doesn't have the resources needed to make their OS compatible with all the thousands of different hardware available on PC's. It's an enormous task.