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Apple Secretly Maintaining x86 Port Of Mac OS X
Earlybird writes "According to this eWeek article, Apple has ported the whole of Mac OS X to the x86 architecture and is maintaining it in parallel with the PowerPC builds. Dubbed Marklar, the project is perceived as a fall-back plan, and, quoth the article, 'has apparently gained strategic relevance in recent months, as Apple's relationship with Motorola has grown strained and Apple looks to alternative chip makers.'" Believe what you will ...
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When Apple finally dies. I won't have to put up with idiots trying to tell me that the Mac is better than the PC. Any grounds for such an argument ceased to exist a long time ago. I know, I've owned several macs and I got sick and tired of the performance, instability, and severe lack of software that was available for it.
The truth is that the Mac freaks simply have an emotional attachment to the architecture and/or the company and are trying to justify it with excuses that passed the criteria for being bullshit a long, long time ago. They're like creationist apologists who have been painted into a corner by their own religion and the progress of science. They don't have a leg to stand on, but that doesn't mean they won't still pretend otherwise. But then again no one else cares except while harrassed by one of them. The Macintosh isn't a computer, its a cult. For a cult, the church of the one true computer doesn't have much to offer. Where are the sex orgies? I mean if I was going to stick my head up my ass far enough that I wanted to join a cult, you can be damned sure it would be one where sex orgies with teenaged girls in cheerleader outfits was an everyday event. You mean I'm supposed to worship Steve Jobs? Right........
I personally don't give a rat's ass what computer anyone else uses. I just don't care because it does not affect me. What does affect me are prissy condescending assholes, who know about as much about computers as I do about the social customs of Mongolians, trying to tell ME that a second rate has-been platform is somehow better than a standard PC.
Maybe once Apple has finally bit the dust these cretins will go craw in a hole someplace and leave the rest of us alone. I'll probably have a T-Shirt made that had the apple logo with R.I.P. below it in big black letters.
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When MS kills a company, efvery one cries out in outrage. Why does Apple's monopolistic practices not get such scrutiny. Instead you say "The clones were killed because the cloners were licensed so they would create products that augmented Apple's offerings, but they instead went for the jugular and directly competed with Apple's offerings. Apple killed them in self-defense." Pretty weak agrument for someone so self assured as to say "Please refrain from posting in the future if you don't have a fucking clue as to what you're talking about." You probably thought MacOS 9 was a good operationg system too, I'm sure. Sun suses the same BS arguement about tight hardware/software integration too. Linux will kill them eventually. If Apple doesn't change its practices to support x86, it will never have more than a 5% market share.
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