[X-Unix] Re: Apple dumping IBM, moving to Intel

[William H. Magill]

On 06 Jun, 2005, at 15:07, Stephen Jonke wrote:
> You won't be able to run OS X on a no-name PC. The only thing that  
> is changing is the processor that is inside the Mac.

This of course, is the $64,000 question -- Why not?

We all know that Apple is an "Iron" company -- They make their money  
strictly by selling hardware.

That means that Apple and Intel will find (have already found) some  
way to "prevent" OSX from running on any PC ever sold by Dell or HP.

It will be "interesting" to see what Apple does about the  
"clones" ... all over again.

Apple pulled the proprietary code from the PROMs several years ago so  
that they COULD run OSX on any platform, that doesn't leave much in  
the way of low level technology to prevent you from running OSX on  
any Intel based system.

Will Apple go back to proprietary PROMs to prevent OSX from running  
on "unsupported" platforms?

Only time will tell.  It WILL be interesting.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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