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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. idiots by TK2K · · Score: 0, Troll

    this is just stupid, no way in hell apple will open it up to normal pc's, it would kill them, it really would.

  2. Is this really Apples goal? by slashbob22 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Call me cynical, because I am. I would first like to clarify that I am not a Redmond Junkie.

    I had a long discussion over lunch the other day about the future of Apple and the timing and purpose of Boot Camp. While I would like to see OSX more widely used, and I am sure there will be some individuals who will dual-boot and decide that they like OSX better, I see that vast majority of dual-booters using Windows on a unique, and expensive, piece of hardware.

    I am concerned that there may not be a business case for Apple to maintain OSX. Why continue to branch an OS while windows is available? The bulk of Apples Revenues are from the iPod and iTunes. I believe that prevailing software laws indicate that you must support it for around 3 years after release and the move to Intel architecture could be the beginning of this phase out.

    Contrary to Cringely, I can certainly foresee a day where "Mac" hardware will, by default, ship with Windows.

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  3. Re:Some MacPoints... by NutscrapeSucks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, you've sunk to my level then, tuxedobob.

    The immature behavior seen here comes from a certain crowd that will not respect my tastes in keyboards.

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  4. Re:if hardware compatibility is a problem by aristotle-dude · · Score: 0, Troll
    You are not a developer obviously or you would know that there is a huge difference between drivers and kernels. Switching to linux will not automagically give you drivers for everything. Have you ever tried to use either ATI gfx cards or wireless cards under your precious linux? Did you consider how they might have to rewrite code within the core frameworks that depend on Mach calls?

    BTW. it is a little difficult to take someone with a userid like "LinuxRulz" seriously. Leet speak is lame.

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