OMG...Apple Considering X86

[ALBPM]

The MACsters wouldn't know what to do with 2 mouse buttons LOL


Would you like to "Biggie Size" that iMAC.....ROFLMAO!!!!!!


Paul

[Sinistral]

- Lol, at the 2 mouse buttons comments... But, my Microsoft Optical Explorer works fine and dandy with my Dual 1ghz G4 at work.

I thought this would be the last place for Mac Sterotypes . -

\/ Thanks, i guess i just took it too literal . -

[Wombat]

We all know that you *can* use a multi-button mouse with a Mac, it just boggles the mind that the default is NOT to.

[Johnny Ray]

Thanks Wombat, that was my point.

John

[Agent31]

I'm using my old G3 as a footrest (at work).... no kidding, I'll post a pic tomorrow

[TnT]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Too bad MS is so involved with Apple..

Isn't part of the reason Apple is actually still around is because of MS's investment?

[blacklotus]

M$ invested in Apple to the tune of US$150 million, at the time when Steve Jobs just got back his old job at Apple.

So even if Apple does become more profitable, Billy Boy just becomes richer...:evil:

Anyway, I thought the default office suite for Apple is....Office X from Micro$oft!!! :evil: One of the reasons why while I consider switching to chic Apple Titaniums, I never do so...hell, it's just another revenue stream for M$...

Originally posted by TnT


Isn't part of the reason Apple is actually still around is because of MS's investment?

[Technoid]

And apple is surviving on the conservtivness of newspapers, music industry etc etc....

"didntja know that mac is 10 times faster than any pc" mac fanatic...

BTW:
I have meet only 2 non fanatic mac users...

[TnT]

I never liked Steve Jobs, always liked Woz, but something about Jobs always irked me. The least fanatic Mac guy I know is the Mac expert at my computer lab. Knows his Mac stuff inside out, but isn't brainwashed like many other Mac users I know.

[xortam]

I met Steve in a store once. Nice enough on a personal level. My buddy went to high school with him. He could have been Apple employee #13 but he wasn't enticed by stock back then. Oh well, we all make mistakes.

[DGhost]

Re: nothing new?

Originally posted by robotfunk
As I recall, Apple had a x86 version of OS 8 and/or 9 on their shelves, just never released it, fearing it would destroy Macintosh sales.

it was actually the Rhapsody developer releases that had X86 support in them, iirc. i was tempted to get it, but if i recall you had to pay them something like $200-$300 to get the priviledge of playing with their latest prerelease software. not something i was too keen on at the time.

then, Jobs came back in from NeXT and Pixar, bought up NeXT, all but killed Rhapsody in making it OS X, and Apple has been a different ball of wax ever since.

and, as someone stated earlier in the thread, you can bet your ass that Apple would make custom machines that, while running x86 processors, could only run Mac OS (or another Mac endorsed OS, possible Linux or BSD). in the same vein, the MacOS port would probably require their proprietary hardware to run, more than likely because they would use a custom (and proprietary) bios/bootloader.

hmm, it would be nice, but i don't really see it going anywhere for a while. all of the companies that have been developing for Mac hardware exclusively would suddenly find themselves having to port to a new hardware platform with different quirks, and a new OS. binary backwards compatability would more than likely be broken, unless Apple spent some *serious* time researching binary compatability. and, more than likely, you would not even be able to run traditional PC software on it (unless Apple was willing to liscense stuff from Microsoft, or put something like Wine into the OS... and that idea is just scary... or if someone ported VMWare... ugh...).

another thing... if apple did release a version that could run on any PC, and/or run any Windows app, it would putting them in direct competition with Microsoft...

end result is a platform that is *still* more expensive than the average PC and cannot run a normal copy of Windows, runs a custom OS that you cannot use on your normal PC and cannot use all of your normal apps on, and to boot you would wind up shedding the last 15 years worth of application and device support.

would be cool, but its not something that will happen overnight, and i bet it will have quite a fair share of problems.

on the other hand, if they did it i would have to say that Apple has quite a set of huevos