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Cringely Predicts Apple to Ship OS X for Any PC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the aqua-for-all dept.

boosman writes "In his current column, and in a similar op-ed piece in The New York Times, Robert X. Cringely predicts that Apple 'will announce a product similar to Boot Camp to allow OS X to run on bog-standard 32-bit PC hardware.' I dissect why this is unthinkable and challenge Cringely to a public bet on the subject."

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  1. That's telling him! by maggard · · Score: 3, Funny
    Oooohhh!

    Random blogger issues challenge to PBS columnist / NYT editorialist!

    ASCII animation at 11pm...

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  2. Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dvorak, Cringely and Jobs and all the Apple fans should take part in a public mass debate about this.

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  3. Re:I want OSX on my Dell by carpe_noctem · · Score: 4, Funny

    With regards to missing standard keys, could you be more specific? Are you referring to "Prt Scr," "Sys Rq," etc? Which keys are missing that are considered "standard"?

    Well, there's this funny looking key between "Alt" and "Ctrl" on my USB keyboard that doesn't seem to do anything under OSX....

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  4. Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window by IgnoramusMaximus · · Score: 3, Funny
    He's wrong for a reason. Dvorak has found a niche in publishing the unthinkable, and generating endless reams of flamebait from all kinds of industry pundits.

    Essentially he has become an Ann Coulter of the computer industry. Same gig, different arena.

  5. Great idea. by Kadin2048 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Humm...but getting them in one place at one time would be tough. So it would be better to do it via a newspaper or something. But that's so 20th century. If only there was some kind of web site, dedicated to tech issues, where anyone who wanted to could come in and post an opinion, for everyone else to read....

    Pity it hasn't been invented yet.

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    1. Re:Great idea. by Jesus_666 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think there is a site like that. It's called "Dig" or something.

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  6. Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window by thc69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The students are getting treats a lot more than you think -- all the students pressing "B" are getting the thought-treat "I'm screwing this dude's research up...uh huhuhuhuh..."

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  7. Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window by bahamat · · Score: 3, Funny
    you get to strut around like you've got a private channel to Gold almighty


    You have a very high opinion of gold.
  8. Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window by russellh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Essentially he has become an Ann Coulter of the computer industry. Same gig, different arena.

    Although he doesn't (yet) advocate rounding up Apple users and putting them in camps.

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  9. Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window by spectre_240sx · · Score: 4, Funny

    "When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?" -- John C. Dvorak

    Classic. Absolutely classic.