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OS X for Intel

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-its-about-time dept.

gbooker writes "According to Mac Observer, Apple has announced that they will release a version of OS X for Intel." Guess all those pompous Mac Owners will have to share their precious OS with us heathens.

50 comments

  1. No they didn't. by jasonwileymac.com · · Score: 1

    Tell me that no one is actiually falling for this crap, please.

    1. Re:No they didn't. by lux55 · · Score: 1

      No one is actually falling for this crap.

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  2. So here goes... by NWT · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ... #4 for today! 8 hours more to go guys!

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  3. Finally! by baruz · · Score: 1

    The return of the Yellow Box! Boy this Apple hardware was getting me down ;.)

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  4. april fools, fools by ender's_shadow · · Score: 1

    man, that was easy.

  5. Christ by HomeGroove · · Score: 1
    Man, these April fools posts are getting out of hand. I mean, c'mon.

    Although I did fall for one a number of years ago. Somone posted an app for Palm that allowed you to tap into some frequency for web access. Shut up, I was young.

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    1. Re:Christ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Shut up, I was young."

      You still are.

      What's that dangling from your navel?

      Umbilical cord!

  6. When Will the hurting Stop by antitribue · · Score: 1

    First the April Fools Jokes and now this!!! Can this day get any worst?

    1. Re:When Will the hurting Stop by marktwain · · Score: 1

      No. Fortunately it's over.

      Sam C.

  7. I fell for it by inkswamp · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's that I just woke up but I was aware of the fact that it was April 1st and I am firmly convinced that Apple would never make this move unless times got desperate for them and just the same... I fell for it anyway!

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  8. Requirement for an April 1 joke: it must be a joke by wholesomegrits · · Score: 0, Insightful

    This, unfortunately, is everything a joke is not.

    Said bullshit must actually be bullshit. Unfortunately, this bullshit is not bullshit enough. Refer to this document, the Darwin FAQ:

    Q. I heard that Darwin runs on Intel processor-based PCs. Is that true?

    A. Yes, and we're partnering with the Darwin developer community to enhance support for this platform.

    Darwin is, BTW, the open source version of fucking OSX.

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  9. I wish by dodald · · Score: 1
    First Thought was: If it was true, it would definatly be on the homepage. Anyone think they actually might, or do you think they are too worried about lossing hardware sales (which they, no doubt, would)?

    I have been wishing that Apple would release something for Intel, ever since I read this

    I do enjoy the jokes though, I fell for this one. :)

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  10. /me sighs by rjamestaylor · · Score: 1

    /me glances at clock
    /me logs off until tomorrow

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  11. Re:Requirement for an April 1 joke: it must be a j by emir · · Score: 1

    darwin is kernel that macosX uses and yes it will run on x86 hardware BUT operating system is more than just kernel.

    thus darwin != macosX

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  12. download link by minus_273 · · Score: 1, Troll

    NO NO, this is true, OSX runs on i386
    i hope they do not get ./tted :-P
    here is the link to the software site
    and here is the download link is here

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    1. Re:download link by pressman · · Score: 4, Informative

      No no no. That's just Darwin; not the enirety of OS X. Darwin is a CLI only BSD variant.

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    2. Re:download link by minus_273 · · Score: 1

      never the less it is OSX for intel... just as the story says

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    3. Re:download link by Strog · · Score: 1

      NO, it is just the core under OS X. There needs to be a lot more than Darwin to make OS X for x86

  13. If only it were true... by Drakino · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I really wish this was true, well an X86 port anyhow. Here is how I figure Apple should do it:

    1. Work with AMD. Get OS X working on X86-64, and work on a G3 emulator for the PC (one out there is real close).

    2. Release OS X for X86-64, thus moving Apple to 64 bit, like everyone is predicting for the G5. Include MacOS app compatibility, and Windows compatibility similar to Classic in OS X.

    3. Allow other vendors to sell compatible hardware, maintain standards similar to the PC-99 standard. Get money off the OS licensing.

    4. Refine PC hardware, and be known as the innovative hardware company. Release products like an updated Cube, TiBook, iMac. Dump the tower clones. Keep pushing for the digital hub with iPods and such.

    I think this would work well, as it would free Apple from the problems of Motorola (G4 stuck at 500mHz for how long?). Plus with enough PC makers interest, AMD wouldn't go under easially. Plus Intel could stay in with their supposed 32/64 bit chip. Honestly I see Apple's additude of "We are better because we can offer everything" as a problem.

    1. Re:If only it were true... by foobar104 · · Score: 5, Informative

      3. Allow other vendors to sell compatible hardware, maintain standards similar to the PC-99 standard. Get money off the OS licensing.

      Yes, we all saw how well that worked back in 1995-1997.

      Like it or not, approve of it or not, right now Apple is a hardware company. Their software-- great though it is-- exists to drive sales of their computers.

      I think there's a strong argument to be made right now that Apple's sales aren't being hurt by the differences between the Mac hardware and PC hardware. The G4 Cube was the only Mac in recent years that didn't sell faster than they could make 'em, and Apple dropped it faster than a... fast... dropping thing.

      Apple keeps prices high through three basic values: quality, coolness, and scarcity. People buy Macs because they're great computers, or because they or their software are cool, and that's where your demand comes from. Scarcity keeps the prices high.

      If Apple were to change their strategy to a software-only model, they would be sacrificing two-and-a-half of those three things. That'd be bad all around.

    2. Re:If only it were true... by jasonwileymac.com · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Well put. Again, I will say it for the rest of you... Never EVER EVER. If you want to use OS X, you will now and forever be required to buy a machine manufactured by Apple. Period. Name one other hardware company that survived by making hardware and licensed software - ....waiting......waiting.... Apple would loose control of the integration, and that is the whole point of owning a Mac. NEVER.

    3. Re:If only it were true... by mmusn · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Porting OSX to x86 would be pointless. Apple has no unique technology in their OS; Linux with KDE already gives you pretty much the same functionality and a similarly nice GUI. What Linux with KDE doesn't give you is the Apple user community, third party software, and integrated hardware/software. That's what makes Apple valuable, and you'd lose that if they ever ported to something other than their own hardware.

      I'd much rather see more companies like Apple: companies that pick an OS, build nice hardware, and sell it all together.

    4. Re:If only it were true... by JoeCotellese · · Score: 1

      Although one thing they do have the Linux/KDE doesn't - apps. Specifically, Office and Photoshop. Yes you could say that Linux has equivalents but they aren't really viable alternatives. I tried using Linux only at my company for a year and couldn't do it. I'm back on NT.

    5. Re:If only it were true... by GutBomb · · Score: 1

      sun sells hardware and also sold solaris for the x86 platform.

    6. Re:If only it were true... by Dynedain · · Score: 2

      IBM (OS/2), Amiga is going to try it "soon", Palm (granted now they are breaking apart the OS and hardware divisions), and there are others

      A harder question is name another company besides Apple that has been successfull with proprietary hardware and software....SGI and Sun are both currently dying slow deaths.

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  14. Re:Requirement for an April 1 joke: it must be a j by jasonwileymac.com · · Score: 1

    Actually, more accuately, Darwin is indeed an OS. It's the flavour of UNIX that OS X uses, but it does not include a GUI or a lot of the other features that make up a full blown OS X. Darwin will run and Intel machine, but OS X, as you said, is much more than Darwin. OS X will never EVER EVVVVVEERRRRRR be available for Intel based PC's. Even if Apple started using Intel chips tomorrow, there would still be firmware and ROMs that made it possilbe to run X only on Apple hardware. Let me say that again... NEVER EVER EVER. They say never say never... I'm sayin' never.

  15. In other news.. by Lally+Singh · · Score: 3, Funny

    The netherregion's temperature has dropped to a chilly 31 degrees fahrenheit.

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  16. Nice Try... by gnovos · · Score: 5, Funny

    but no. You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine!

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    1. Re:Nice Try... by ellem · · Score: 1

      <i>You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine!</I>
      clap clap clap

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    2. Re:Nice Try... by theNeophile · · Score: 1

      You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine!
      clap clap clap

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  17. April fool--OS X on Intel by RemiT · · Score: 3, Funny

    This article is serious?? (Yeah, right)

    How about Cmdr Tostada: Pompous MacOS users? Hmmm...
    Guess they have nothing on the Linux faithful!

  18. could it be? by paradesign · · Score: 1

    Do you really mean that this hers box aint been a pc this entire time i done owned it. Whell golly, its no wonder that winders systems been a given such a thorn to IN-stall. ill just stick to runnin osics then.

    gee haw

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  19. old news by cappadocius · · Score: 1

    c'mon, I heard about this exactly one year ago! So.... oh.... wait... nevermind.

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  20. damn shame... by Crusty+Old+Socks+Man · · Score: 0

    that this is a joke. Mac OS X is the best operating system and environment that I've seen in a long time, not since Windows 3.1 has there been something this good. I would jump at the opportunity to be able to run OS X alongside Win3.1/Dos6.22 on my computer, and finally be able to throw away Linux and all the problems it causes me!

  21. If this actually did by Dragnet · · Score: 0

    If Apple were to actually port Mac OS X as a platform to x86-based systems, I feel they would be extremely succesful. Despite Linux's effort on the desktop scene, more people have sadly heard of Apple and Mac OS than they have of Linux; besides those amusing IBM commercials with the astronaughts who appear constipated. If Apple were to do this, they could really take alot from Microsoft (rr, and the Linux desktop user-base as well). Unfortunately, Satan will be shivering before this happens; but, oh god, I would cry with joy if this article was oh, in the middle of June. :-).

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  22. Re:Requirement for an April 1 joke: it must be a j by Teutates · · Score: 1

    Darwin is NOT the open source version of "fucking OSX" Darwin is what drives OS X in the background. It could have just as easily been Linux.

    Bad Troll, no cookie. Aqua is the true beauty of OS X and apple wouldn't put the money into support for the convoluted hardware web that is PC architecture.

    Ooooh BSD runs on PPC that means Solaris does!!!

  23. Re:Requirement for an April 1 joke: it must be a j by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bad Troll, no cookie.

    I think your reply and irritated explanation suggests otherwise. YHBT. Fool.

  24. Understatements. by Asterax · · Score: 0

    The word "heathens" is a complete understatement for some PC users . =)
    Ugh..I REALLY don't want to see this new Mac OS X being downloaded onto some sleazy file sharing application and getting warezed. Just buy the software, mow lawns to get the money if you have to.

  25. Re:Requirement for an April 1 joke: it must be a j by Teutates · · Score: 1

    Not irritated, just amused by the fact that most people don't quite understand what they are talking about :)

    When I get irritated, I swear. I didn't swear, merely quoted the poster. I don't let slashdot effect me like most others here. I happen to enjoy a good exchange of intelligent ideas! :)

  26. SUCK MY HAIRY NUTSACK by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 1

    no-one in the rest of the world takes anything written at TMO seriously do they? have you seen the shit there written by that motherfucker who calls itself "iBrotha". that shit'd make a dog laugh, no really.

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    1. Re:SUCK MY HAIRY NUTSACK by iBrotha · · Score: 1

      I could come up with some witty retort, but, alas and alack, I won't, because one can only aspire to the level of erudition and profundity expressed by Alan "Get a rope! Yeeeee-haw!" Partridge.

      If you are really curious about what "shit" I've written that has turned Partridge into the president of my fan club, mosey on over to the following sample of my work: http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2002/03/25.1. shtml

      Or, you can go on over to my homepage at http://www.ibrotha.com and judge my oeurve for yourself.

      If I am a, ahem, "motherfucker," based upon what *I* write, what does that make Alan Partridge, based upon the stirring, inspiring and cogent soliloquoy that *he* has posted onto *this* site?

      I love knowing that I can make a reader burst a blood vessel :-)

      Rodney "iBrotha" Lain
      Mac Observer columnist and all-around good egg,
      somewhere in Minnesota... http://www.ibrotha.com

    2. Re:SUCK MY HAIRY NUTSACK by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 1

      "I could come up with some witty retort"

      No, you couldn't. That's my point, really. You're the worst writer I've ever seen and I feel duty bound to bring your feeble scribblings to the attention of a wider audience so that you may properly garner the contempt that you deserve. You've ruined TMO and you're an embarrassment to the Mac community.

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    3. Re:SUCK MY HAIRY NUTSACK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You want another man to suck on your nutsack?

    4. Re:SUCK MY HAIRY NUTSACK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yes, it's so sweaty and nasty that the dog won't lick it any more

  27. Ha! I win! by piecewise · · Score: 2

    Despite my mother having convinced me the town was on fire at 4:30 in the morning and subsequently causing me to rush outside in my boxers -- and despite my having fallen for Slashdot's new Slashvertisement jokes -- I knew this was a Fool's try the SECOND I saw it. Hah, i love it!

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  28. WOW, I almost beleived that... by Quicksilver31337 · · Score: 0

    SURE, and Microsoft is gonna pull windows.

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  29. Dang, and it's not even April 1 anymore! by Anonymous+Freak · · Score: 2

    Shoot. I saw this story directly on MacObserver on 1 April, and immediatly dismissed it as an April Fools prank. Now, a few days later, I go to /.Apple for the first time in a week, and almost fall for it. (My initial impression was 'woah, maybe MacObserver was right, and it wasn't a prank!' Until I read that it was from MO, and noticed the posting date.) Had me fooled for a good 5-10 seconds...

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  30. April's fool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And *I* always thought an april's fool joke ought to be

    a) fooling people
    b) funny

    this one is neither.

    April 1st hurts so bad, I will make it my Day Without Computers from now on.

    Sheesh really whoever thinks of this unoriginal crap?