On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Jan 10, 2006, at 8:22 PM, John A wrote:
On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Dual-core Intel iMac...available today.
And so begins the "end-times". "Alas poor Macintosh! I knew ye
well....."
and
Actually, I'd say your fortunate! You got a real Mac, not a PC in a
Mac box....
Why the death watch and put down of the new chip? The Mac is a
Personal Computer, just like a Dell, a Gateway, the Commodore Amiga,
the Commodore Vic20, the Sinclair Z80, the Apple II and the Radio
Shack TRS 80.
So Apple becoming another Dell is a "good thing"? Am I the only one
here who has concerns with this? Geeezzzz......
Yes, some people will probably successfully put a version of windows
on it (hey, maybe they will dump their 10.4.4 disks on ebay or the
swap list cheap!!). And yes, some enterprising hacker will probably
get OS X on a generic intel box, but big deal. Considering how many
people just buy a dell because it is cheap, regardless that they put
so much bloatware on their gaming XPS system that it will not even run
Sims 2 without a call to tech support to disable some of it, I think
the actual number of lost Mac sales to this hack will be pretty small.
But that's still a big question, as Apple has yet to explain how they
plan to prevent this issue. Jobs STILL has not yet revealed a plan to
tie the OS to the hardware. Until someone from Apple steps forward to
clear this question up once and for all, it's all speculation. I
wouldn't be surprised to see an "x86" version of Tiger show up on
Limewire within 30 days of these new machines being widely sold, unless
Apple has something up their sleeves they're not talking about. And so
much for Intel processors lowering the price of these new "Macs"! And
the "MacbookPro"? What a mouthfull. Couldn't they think up something
better than that?!?! So much for "think different"!
J
"Man has not evolved far above the slime which spawned him."
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