[Ti] OS X on a PC? [forward from a different list]

[cbirds]

Chris Olson tapped out this message on 1/25/2003 9:09 PM 

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>On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 07:19 PM, cbirds wrote:
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>> OOps cuz it was here instead, sorry.
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>> http://osxonintel.xoverzero.com/mboard_main.cfm
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>Are you sure this is legit?  I click on the first link I see on the 
>page and here's what I read (pasted from the page):

Yes that just happened to be a posting to their boards by someone, and it 
appears that he is the usual PC basher who just hates all Macs I guess.
But the owner(s) of the site have been pushing for this for a while now.


I first saw this site 3 years ago when I was trying out X and was shocked 
at how fast they got those signatures........the discussion is usually 
whether it can be done at all, and what would happen to Apple if they did 
do it.

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>IF you want a decent OS for Intel, then lose the apple interface and
>darwin. I will run windows first before I will infect my machine with
>netinfo, aqua or an OS with fewer applications than OS/2. You want
>a stable OS? OS X is not one of them. How about the hidden facts
>that 6 out of 10 G4s get returned back to Apple due to overheating?
>How about the iBook that I got and it overheats to the point of the
>plastic melting down whenever I try to play a DVD? Yes, I have OS X
>Jaguar 10.2.2, BIG MISTAKE.
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>Here's the story. I called Apple Tech Support. Their friendly operator
>told me flat out that I was SOL and that I should buy another one if
>I wanted to use this amazing OS. Those were his words, and look I
>got the proof, I taped the sob.
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>If you ask me, anything but apple on my machine. I feel infected just
>by looking at the OS X logo *PUKE PUKE*
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>These Mac on x86 guys have been around for awhile and they seem to get 
>pretty fanatical about their rants of why they think x86 is so much 
>better. What's everybody going to do if Mac runs on x86 and then IBM's 
>PPC 970 turns out to be an x86 killer?