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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.

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  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. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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!

  6. 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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  7. 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.