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Post #46,010
by tjsinclair
7/18/02 5:54:48 PM
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New Well, if you think Mac users are complaining now...

imagine if OS X ran on cheaper, ubiquitous x86 hardware.

Please don't give them more reasons to cry. I need the rest.

Tom Sinclair
"Subverting Young Minds Since 03/13/2000"
Post #46,020
by orion
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7/18/02 7:11:57 PM
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New It is only a possibility now
but Jobs said he would consider it at year's end when the Mac OSX conversion is done. I am assuming that they are converting more MacOS applications to OSX, and beefing up OSX and fixing major bugs?

But imagine if OSX did run on cheaper WINTEL hardware? Imagine $600USD Macs with an AMD Thunderbird chip running at 1.6Ghz? To follow Apple's usual plans, they would most likely make their own hardware, ROM, and make it so that WINTEL OSX only runs on Apple made WINTEL systems. Maybe they will use an AMI or AWARD BIOS with a special ID code in it that WINTEL OSX checks for? If it isn't found, OSX refuses to run or install. Or maybe it looks for a hardware chip that only Apple WINTEL systems will have, sort of an electronic lock/dongle chip?
I am free now, to choose my own destiny.
     OSX port to X86 chips by end of year? - (orion) - (17) - July 18, 2002, 05:16:06 PM EDT
         Well, if you think Mac users are complaining now... - (tjsinclair) - (1) - July 18, 2002, 05:54:48 PM EDT
             It is only a possibility now - (orion) - July 18, 2002, 07:11:57 PM EDT
         When pigs fly - (wharris2) - (6) - July 18, 2002, 07:12:05 PM EDT
             Which is why I think - (orion) - (5) - July 18, 2002, 07:19:42 PM EDT
                 But what about current machines? - (tjsinclair) - (4) - July 18, 2002, 09:44:39 PM EDT
                     The way I see it - (orion) - July 18, 2002, 09:47:22 PM EDT
                     Let me explain it another way, Dual Citizenship! - (orion) - (2) - July 18, 2002, 10:39:07 PM EDT
                         Still can't see the added value - (tjsinclair) - (1) - July 19, 2002, 01:50:16 AM EDT
                             Maybe I am wrong - (orion) - July 19, 2002, 03:07:37 AM EDT
         There's no technical barrier - (tuberculosis) - July 19, 2002, 05:21:48 AM EDT
         Consider this - (orion) - (4) - July 19, 2002, 09:43:38 AM EDT
             Why? - (tuberculosis) - (3) - July 19, 2002, 12:15:52 PM EDT
                 What it gets - (orion) - (2) - July 19, 2002, 01:36:48 PM EDT
                     Okay, let's see if I have this straight - (tjsinclair) - (1) - July 19, 2002, 05:15:33 PM EDT
                         Sorry must be silly. - (orion) - July 19, 2002, 10:08:05 PM EDT
         Turns out, Yahoo took Jobs out of context - (orion) - July 19, 2002, 10:06:10 PM EDT
         More on the OSX to X86 ports - (orion) - July 23, 2002, 05:24:02 PM EDT

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