On 7-Jun-05, at 1:57 PM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
Why wouldn't you? Memory, drives, video, etc. are all the same right
now. Motherboard has pretty standard features, other than it is setup
for a Power processor. Apple has been going cheap for a while, SCSI ->
IDE ring any bells? It would be a real shame if they didn't allow you
to
install OS X on any commodity PC, once again back to that whole volume
issue. Without a different chip, Macs really are just a pretty looking
box with a nice software package preinstalled. Darwin runs on Intel
already (mostly) which is the real key, if Apple goes through with this
and won't let you install on a commidity PC then they really missed the
boat, in fact I would say they couldn't even find the dock.
Quoting cnet
<http://news.com.com/Apple+throws+the+switch%2C+aligns+with+Intel+-
+page+2/2100-7341_3-5733756-2.html?tag=st.next>
After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller
addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs,
saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based
Mac.
"That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably
will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that."
However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac
OS X on other computer makers' hardware.
"We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple
Mac," he said.
Shades of Sony...
