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If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch?

Posted by Cliff on from the microsoft's-worst-nightmare dept.

A not-so anonymous Anonymous Coward would like to put this query before you: "I'm not a fan of Windows, and never have been, but I am a fan of the x86 architecture. I really like Linux, but there are still a few issues that are keeping me from switching completely. I really like Mac OS X but I don't want to drop $2000 on a computer that is only as fast as an x86 computer at half the price. Darwin, Mac OS X's unix-ish core, has been ported to x86 and Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn OS seems to be disliked by everyone but Microsoft. If Apple released Mac OS X to compete with Longhorn, would you switch?"

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  1. Re:Project Builder, er, I mean 'XCode'.. by aristotle-dude · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yeah and a lot of you bought NeXTStep for your X86 boxes right? Oh wait, now you did not even though windows sucked even more back then than it does now. NeXT was run by Steve Jobs and if you look at the Cocoa API, bundled apps and development tools, OS X is NeXTStep 5.x+.

    Yeah sure, you would switch. Bullshit, you would not. Steve Jobs already tried OS X on X86 (in the form of NeXTStep) but you bastards did not want to play the price for it.

    I'm a switcher as of two years ago at home but i develop widows apps for a living. I built my last PC a couple years ago so I know what X86 is all about (since the XT). The X86 platform is crap.

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  2. Re:I would consider it... by T-Ranger · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ill wander into this tarpit of X11.

    IMHO the problem with X, and surrounding technology, is the "not my problem" syndrome. X11, by itself, provides very little. Arranging windows is not its problem, thats for the window manager. Drawing the content of the windows is not either X11s or the windows managers problem, thats for the app. This is why you cant either really "draw window contents while dragging" or true transparency; both work by taking a screenshot and drawing that. X11 has some abilities to cut/paste, but it is limited to text only. Not text plus some limited formating. Text only. Period. Gnome (and assumably KDE) deal with this in their own ways, but not with each other, or other things like OOo and Mozilla, or the X11 way. At least not all the time.

    What the fuck is a MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1?

    Before anyone jumps on me, I am aware that both those things Ive mentioned are getting solved. The come to mind because of that.. But they are getting solved 20 years after they should have been.