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Apple's Colossal Disappointment?
Mudzy writes "Michael Roberson, founder of Linspire, has an article at The TechZone talking about Apple's 'Colossal Disappointment' for not porting Mac OS X to PC after they announced the move to Intel processors. He discuss why this could be a mistake." From the article: "Instead of a brilliant strategic maneuver, it's a step necessitated by IBM's inability to keep pace with Intel. It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops."
I'm incredibly dissapointed that Linspire will not run on my 1982 vintage casio wristwatch, but I sure hope they're working on it, I mean, wow! just think of how much marketshare they'd get if their OS could run on such inexpensive commodity hardware!
Starsucks
I mean, really, how many more times can we expect another bit of "Apple should dismantle itself so I can put OS X on some POS box" punditry?
Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice.
Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops.
Do we have to have this explained to us in almost exactly the same words in every single fucking article that mentions Apple's switch?
I'm not sure that the head of a major Linux company would be an apple "fanboy".
But hey, ignorance about who wrote the article for the win.
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
The hell kind of slashdot post was that? You forgot the last two steps:
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12. Profit!
Rhapsody in Numbers
Yes, just look at how phenomenally well Palm's been doing thanks to that. Palm One's hardware is more powerful than any of the competition, and OS 6 is everywhere. ... oh wait.
The difference is that Jobs' RDF works most of the time.
If you're smart, you'll arrive at the Best of Both Worlds solution. Make MacOS X 100% compatible with off-the-shelf PC hardware...as long as you have the $300 Macintosh Compatibility PCI Card. What the card actually does is almost inconsequential, though such a design would actually offer some technical advantages, in addition to the more obvious and important business advantages.
Could have been a good, useful desktop OS.
But its just a shitty, unpolished Linux distro.
Oh well.
I gots ta ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
I disagree with the opinion that it's an opinion most people would not agree with.
that's presuming, of course, that the intel hardware that apple eventually will sell will use BIOS or its replacement, as opposed to Open Firmware.
Apple stuff is expensive because Apple wants to make a fat profit off of their stuff. It's not because the hardware is inherently so much more expensive.
As far as driver support goes - there's a huge difference between Mac OS X and Windows. Consider I can unplug my crappy USB mouse on my Mac while the OS is running, and plug it into another USB port, and it will pick right up where it left off. Last time I tried this with a Windows box, I was prompted to re-install drivers, etc. for the new device (wtf?), which is a joy when your only mouse is the one you've just moved, and won't work until you either a) proceed with the driver install using the keyboard only, or b) put the mouse back in the old port. This is even more fun if you have your mouse plugged into your keyboard, and move the keyboard and mouse at the same time. Good job, Windows!
Ick.
Thanks for playing "you didn't get the point". You win a new car.
Your statement was the whole point of the parent.