Text 4750, 85 rader
Skriven 2005-06-09 18:49:12 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
     Kommentar till en text av Robert Comer (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Mactel support
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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com>


http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609.html

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The crowd this week in San Francisco at Apple's World Wide Developers
Conference seemed mildly excited by the prospect of its favorite computer
company turning to Intel processors. The CEO of Adobe asked why it had taken
Apple so long to make the switch? Analysts on Wall Street were generally
positive, with a couple exceptions. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE!? Are these
people drunk on Flav-r-Ade? Yes. It is the legendary Steve Jobs Reality
Distortion Field at work. And this time, what's behind the announcement is so
baffling and staggering that it isn't surprising that nobody has yet figured it
out until now.

Apple and Intel are merging....
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I am not sure at this point if I agree with his conclusion, but his discussion
is worth a read...

 /m





On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 06:45:18 -0400, "Robert Comer"
<bobcomer@mindspring.com> wrote:

>> If they go for special chips etc to actively ban people trying out OSX on
>> their existing boxes then it's a one way trap wwhere they will steadily
>> lose out. i.e. if people can install XP on a Mac P4 but not OSX on a std
>> P4 then you will be steadily allowing in the "Oh let's swap it all to
>> windows coz we can just buy some copies of XP & be done with it...."
>
>I read a story yesterday that confirmed they will only allow OSX to run on
>Apple hardware, it's going to not be accomplished by some kind of
>cryptographic cpu capabilities of the intel chip/chipsets. (DRM in other
>words.)
>
>I personally think they're idiots all the way around in this one. If you're
>going to mass market hardware, make it a mass market OS, otherwise don't
>even bother.
>
>- Bob Comer
>
>
>"Adam" <mmmmm_beer_mmmm_donuts@moes> wrote in message
>news:42a80254@w3.nls.net...
>> RobertB. wrote:
>>
>>> To squelch any further rumors. See especially the last paragraph, just in
>>> case you were wondering: A News.com story quotes Apple marketing VP Phil
>>> Schiller about Mac/Windows interoperability on PCs: Also on Monday, Jobs
>>> said the next version of OS X, called Leopard, will be released in late
>>> 2006 or early 2007, which he said was the same timeframe as Microsoft's
>>> next Windows update, dubbed Longhorn. Microsoft has said Longhorn will be
>>> released by late 2006. After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice
>>> President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs,
>>> saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based
>>> Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They
>>> probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that."
>>> However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS
>>> X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X
>>> on anything other than an Apple Mac."
>>
>> We shall see.
>>
>> If they go for special chips etc to actively ban people trying out OSX on
>> their existing boxes then it's a one way trap wwhere they will steadily
>> lose out. i.e. if people can install XP on a Mac P4 but not OSX on a std
>> P4 then you will be steadily allowing in the "Oh let's swap it all to
>> windows coz we can just buy some copies of XP & be done with it...."
>>
>> A "no support on non-Mac h/w is one thing. Back to the days of the special
>> mac boot rom is just tedious dongle city.
>>
>> Adam
>

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