[X4U] Apple's move to Intel chips

[Stroller]

On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:11 am, Brett Conlon wrote:
> ...
> Apple designs a Mac that dual boots OSX and Windows giving them direct 
> acces to the PC market. Perhaps they even market the machine as "Get 
> the best of both worlds"
> ...
> PC users have their first play on OSX coz it came bundled with the 
> Mac.... and like it!!!

Mircosoft don't allow Windows to be sold preinstalled in a dual-boot 
configuration - not at OEM pricing, at least. I suspect dual-boot Macs 
will be for the minority of users, and will not be a "standard 
configuration".

> Now, if Apple can get OSX to be able to run Windows based apps 
> natively in OSX then that will really be SOMETHING!

That could be done - WINE <http://www.winehq.com/> is a similar 
technology. But I suspect that in reality it wouldn't work much better 
than virtual PC.

Stroller.