On Jun 18, 2005, at 10:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And here's yet-another article, with a shoe drop, maybe!
Dell 'happy' to ship Mac OS X-based PCs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/16/dell_eyes_apple/
About midway thru the article it says:
... The only 'benefit' will be that if you don't like Mac OS X,
you'll be able to wipe it and install Windows on your Mac. Apple
has said it won't stop users doing that, though it will prevent PC
owners installing Mac OS X on their machines.
huh? Reread that!
The Mactel hardware will be so compatible with regular PC hardware
*at the motherboard level* that Windows will boot on it???? That
procludes a number of "lock down" things Apple could do to OS X to
stop people from booting it on a spec PC. woohoo! A boon for the
hacking community!
Actually NO . That's completely wrong.
What Phil Schiller *said*, whne asked at WWDC,was that if someone
wanted to somehow get Windows software running on an Intel Mac, Apple
wouldn't stop them.
This is SO far away from "will be so compatible with regular PC
hardware *at the motherboard level* that Windows will boot on it????"
that it's not even remotely close.
Do NOT believe even a tenth of what you're reading on the web about
"Mactel" hardware design, because no one but the folks at Apple an,
presumably, Intel know anything about this at all.
They've already said the development machines are NOT representative
of what the shipping computers will be.
--
Bruce Johnson
"no matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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