[G4] Has hell frozen over?

[John Wilson]

 It's naive to think that Apple is going to release a version of Tiger (or any future OS) that will run on a non-Apple Intel machine. They will require consumers to purchase an Apple/Intel machine that has a proprietary mobo or some other hardware-specific authentication. That way they'll continue to be able to control the hardware configuration(s) and avoid the Windows nightmare of trying to provide drivers for every peripheral in the known universe. Nothing else will really need to change. Just as now, you'll have to buy Apple computers and system software from Apple. No doubt some enterprising souls will try to write code that will enable non-Apple PC's to run OS X but when it doesn't work or won't recognize peripherals, network settings, etc., who is going to provide support? Not Apple. 

On Tuesday, June 07, 2005, at 10:08AM, Dennis B. Swaney <romad at nvwisp.com> wrote:

>At 7:46 AM -0400 6/7/05, Tim Collier wrote:
>>
>>Next OS is going to be Leopard....I wonder if they're going to try 
>>to start selling this OS to present Windows users?  Is this going to 
>>be the beginning for Mac OS software vs. Windows?  I think so. 
>>Damn, I wish I owned some Apple stock...but alas.
>>I can only say that I am happy with Apple's decision (although when 
>>I first heard about it, I was not) and I'm looking forward to buying 
>>my first Intel based Mac.
>
>Why wait for a Mac with the mandatory warning label? As soon as an 
>Intel compliant version of Tiger is released, just get a Wintel box, 
>wipe the hard drive and install that version of Tiger. Since the 
>first Macintel boxes are being released in 06 and Leopard is slated 
>for 07, that means that one of the updates (10.4.5?) will be the 
>version installed on it. Of course, if you want to use Leopard, 
>you'll have to get an Intel machine from somewhere. I didn't see 
>anything about releasing both PPC & Intel versions of Leopard; they 
>were concentrating on application compatability.
>
>This decision also means that Apple's whole PPC/RISC vs Intel/CISC 
>argument is now a deadend. Perhaps Intel is going to release a 
>special premium-priced chip just for Macintoshes, that is totally 
>different from the Pentium line. Hmm, maybe AMD will come out with a 
>competing chip.
>
>-- 
>Sincerely,
>Dennis B. Swaney
>
>"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is 
>... oh, never mind."
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