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Mac OS X x86 Put To The Test
stivi writes "ZDNet has tested Mac OS X x86 on a Toshiba laptop. The article discusses installation process, performance and power consumption comparison and has a thorough photo gallery as well." From the article: "Mac OS X will not be available on any old x86 PC, though, as Apple wants to retain control over its hardware platform. From the company's point of view, this is an understandable position, as the margins on Apple-branded computers are much higher than is usual for standard x86 PCs. Were Apple to put the x86 version of its operating system on general release, Dell would begin to manufacture Apple clones. This would put enormous pressure on the price of Apple's own computers -- something the company is naturally keen to avoid."
One of hundreds of web sites have demonstrated how to put together and install OSx86. In one case the author replicated the hardware that Apple used in the Developers Computer running OSx86. The total price for the complete computer was under $200. (not counting the monitor and keyboard). About 15 years ago MacWorld magazine went out and bought all the components than went into a Mac SE (including the monitor). The cost? A total of $350. At that time I paid $3000 for the Mac SE!!! Naturally there are a number of questions that Apple/Jobs will need to answer to consumers over the next couple of months. What's a Responsible Profit & Markup on any product/service? What's a Responsible Renumeration Ratio For Jobs Over The Lowest Paid Apple employee - or sales person in a non Apple retail store - selling Apple hardware? www.digitalpostproduction.com just ran a piece on their site which showed that 75% of all folks doing serious media stuff use Windows XP. Will 75% of the consumers who actually make money with their computers doing "media" switch to the new Intel/Apple computer new dual core - which runs at half the speed of a dual core AMD when it comes to heavy duty work when it comes to - for example, encoding H.264 (which will become a 3 trillion a year industry - once the development of H.264 encoding/decoding hardware/software? I doubt it. In my case, I am running a school to teach up and coming "web educational/corporate videographers/editors who will focus on H.264 live streaming and progressive downloads for Sony PSP, 3G and other devicess/ portable formats". We will be using AMD's quadra core hardware - which will make us at least 100% more productive than Apple/Intel users. One has to remember that Apple's implementation of H.264 is super bloated compared to Ateme's implementation. As well Apple's Quicktime H.264 has not passed the interoperability standards (more monopolizing?) So who will Apple sell it's overpriced hardware to? - "You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."
>>Apple hardware costs more because it goes through more quality control and has
>>better design.
What, you mean like making sure it doesn't crack in half, or scratch really easily?
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it's not crippling the OS...it's simply demanding stronger hardware specs
if u've seen the specs of Windows Vista, it'll CRAWL on a Pentium 4 1.6GHz with "only" 256MB of ram and "only" 64MB of graphics ram.