[Ti] OS X on x86 (was: Apple's True Market Share!)

[Chris Olson]

Ric Perrott wrote:
> Well firstly, the Ti is obviously NOT the most sought after notebook 
> computer in the known universe or else it would be selling a lot more 
> than it is. I too am typing this on a Ti 550, and I love it. However, it 
> still stands to reason that the processor inside the Ti has ZERO bearing 
> on why it's a great laptop. It's a great laptop because it's engineered 
> beautifully and because it runs MacOS, that's it. The allure of the 
> TiBook has absolutely NOTHING whatsoever to do with what processor it 
> has inside excepting of course the fact that the processor inside it 
> allows it to run MacOS.

That could be, but I sure see alot of these things at conferences with 
people running linux in them, and hear many linux users saying they wish 
they had one.  I didn't say "best selling" either.  And I maybe 
should've used the term "the most coveted notebook" instead of "most 
sought after".  And all for good reason.  I've owned my share of x86 
notebooks running linux.  The G4 Powerbook is simply the best I've found 
for running any of the PPC Linux distributions.  And it's support for 
the hardware in the PPC Linux distros that make the G4 (or iBook) the 
best.  Install linux in one of these things and everything Just 
Works(tm), including the modem.  We have some problems, right now, with 
the graphics card in the newest PowerBooks, but that will be solved shortly.

> Is that why you like MacOS? Because it puts you in a 5% minority? Funny, 
> I like it because I think it's the best OS on the market, and I'd use it 
> if 100% of the world used it. I don't pick computing platforms to be 
> cool or appear "hipper than thou", I choose them to get my work done and 
> move on with my life.

LOL.  I use it because it has the unix tools I use everyday, with a much 
better GUI that provides a better suite of software than KDE3 on Linux, 
or Gnome on Solaris.  But at the same time, yes, I'm proud of the fact 
that I do not use any Microsoft operating systems, which technically 
makes me part of the minority.
-- 
Chris Olson
Network Administrator
AST Communications,  Inc.
Linux Support                    http://linux.astcomm.net
Barron,  WI   USA