>>Mac OS X will always be tied to Apple hardware and Apple-compatible
hardware.
Yeah, that's the funny thing...
The Mac II had NuBus slots, SCSI discs, Motorola 68000 CPU, and Apple
hardware for graphics. Today, they have PCI slots, IDE discs, ATI hardware
for graphics. Once they change to Intel, there's not much difference
between a PC and x86 Mac. It's slowly morphing into a PC with an Apple OS.
Or will they leapfrog the PC and move to Itanium?
A multi-processor Itanium 2 w/9MB L3 cache would be quite the hot rod...
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Max F Lang
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:33 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Apple shifts to Intel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 20:24, Scott f wrote:
> They have been developing open source and an x86 version.
> http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/
That's the base OS, not Aqua. And Aqua is what most people see and lust for.
I don't believe Jobs will ever release or sell Aqua as a separate component
that could be run on another base OS that isn't Apple produced. With Darwin,
you're stuck with X.
Also, as pretty as Aqua interface is, and as much as I love Apple for
releasing both Mac OS X and Aqua (and the Xcode IDE), Apple was, is, and
will always be a hardware company first. They live and die by the hardware
they make and sell. Mac OS X will always be tied to Apple hardware and
Apple-compatible hardware. So just because they may be going to more of a
commodity chip, doesn't mean we'll ever be able to run Mac OS X on clone
hardware. If Apple doesn't make it or approve it, it ain't gonna ever run on
Apple hardware. Sorry, that's life as an Apple owner...
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