First of all:
Current IBM G5 PowerPC chip Macs can run MacUNIX (Mac OSX),Unix,X11,Linux,Java & Virtual PC under one unit. What price is that worth? Check out MAC OSX on Apple.com regarding TERMINAL & X-11. YOU CAN POP THE HOOD NOW & WRITE UNIX & LINUX CODE! Mac OSX works on Wintel & Unix networks easily!
Second:
Quality Control is everything to Apple & success of OSX.
So, Why not have the best of both worlds?
Apple would make a UNIX PC BOX (XMac) with a Pentium 4 / Server Chip ( Itanium ) PLUS a propietary Apple V-Chip on the Apple motherboard. WITHOUT the Apple V-Chip Mac OSX-PC will not operate. Apple insures quality & builds the hardward XMac box for sale to the PC/Unix/Linux team that is preloaded with Mac OSX-PC.
After NeXT Unix + Mac OSX Darwin BSD Unix, Apple surely has the know how to do a PC version of OSX (maybe thay already have?)
If they built the XMac box too, they would have both worlds conquered.
Mac OSX PowerPC PowerMac for Mac Geeks & OSX-PC Itanium XMac for PC/Unix/Linux only Geeks!
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Option 2 could be an XMac box with Apple V-Chip motherboard BUT with an AMD 64 bit chip with new OSX-PC?
First of all: Current IBM G5 PowerPC chip Macs can run MacUNIX (Mac OSX),Unix,X11,Linux,Java & Virtual PC under one unit. What price is that worth? Check out MAC OSX on Apple.com regarding TERMINAL & X-11. YOU CAN POP THE HOOD NOW & WRITE UNIX & LINUX CODE! Mac OSX works on Wintel & Unix networks easily! Second: Quality Control is everything to Apple & success of OSX. So, Why not have the best of both worlds? Apple would make a UNIX PC BOX (XMac) with a Pentium 4 / Server Chip ( Itanium ) PLUS a propietary Apple V-Chip on the Apple motherboard. WITHOUT the Apple V-Chip Mac OSX-PC will not operate. Apple insures quality & builds the hardward XMac box for sale to the PC/Unix/Linux team that is preloaded with Mac OSX-PC. After NeXT Unix + Mac OSX Darwin BSD Unix, Apple surely has the know how to do a PC version of OSX (maybe thay already have?) If they built the XMac box too, they would have both worlds conquered. Mac OSX PowerPC PowerMac for Mac Geeks & OSX-PC Itanium XMac for PC/Unix/Linux only Geeks!