Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-12 Thread Ralph
Howdy, On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 18:03 -0600, James E. Therrault wrote: > Ralph wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 08:39 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > >>On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Ralph wrote: > >> > >> > >>>There are Intel documents describing the architecture, but they are > >>>pdfs and I dis

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-11 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: > > Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM, James E. Therrault >> wrote: >> >>>Dan wrote: >>> >>> At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM

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2008-12-11 Thread PeterH
On Dec 11, 2008, at 9:02 AM, James E. Therrault wrote: > The changeover occurred two or three years ago. Here's an > interesting link: Three- and six-core PPC chips are planned, or are in production, by IBM, and others. Remember, Apple recently bought-out a foundryless semi house which

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-11 Thread James E. Therrault
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM, James E. Therrault > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Dan wrote: >> >> >>>At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Dec 4,

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-11 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Dan wrote: > >> >> Which brings me back to my believe that Apple should do an open Mac >> OS X, > > > That's an underpants gnome business plan > > 1) Offer Open Mac OS X > 2) ? > 3) Profit!

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-11 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM, James E. Therrault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan wrote: > >> At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-11 Thread AIM Mail
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Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-09 Thread James E. Therrault
Ralph wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 08:39 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >>On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Ralph wrote: >> >> >>>There are Intel documents describing the architecture, but they are >>>pdfs and I dislike pointing to proprietary format files. >> >>So what problem do you have with PDF's,

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-09 Thread glen
- Original Message > From: Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 4:22:51 PM > Subject: Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement! > > > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 08:39 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: >

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-09 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy, > There is a better explanation. Dell won't answer the question, but I > have seen other analysts say that Dell pays Microsoft a license fee for > every one of the Linux machines sold. Their agreement is that they pay

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-09 Thread Ralph
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 08:39 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Ralph wrote: > > > There are Intel documents describing the architecture, but they are > > pdfs and I dislike pointing to proprietary format files. > > So what problem do you have with PDF's, they're an open

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Ralph wrote: > There are Intel documents describing the architecture, but they are > pdfs and I dislike pointing to proprietary format files. So what problem do you have with PDF's, they're an open, public format. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-09 Thread PeterH
On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Ralph wrote: > There is a better explanation. Dell won't answer the question, but I > have seen other analysts say that Dell pays Microsoft a license fee > for > every one of the Linux machines sold. Their agreement is that they > pay > the license fee for every

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-08 Thread Ralph
Howdy, There is a better explanation. Dell won't answer the question, but I have seen other analysts say that Dell pays Microsoft a license fee for every one of the Linux machines sold. Their agreement is that they pay the license fee for every computer shipped. I have seen similar reports fr

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-08 Thread Ralph
Howdy, Most intel processors are Core 2 architecture these days. But, the Atom is very different. It executes the same instruction set and is compatible enough for OSX. It was brought to us by the Intel team in Austin that designed the P4 and suffers from a deep pipeline, just like the P4. It

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-06 Thread PeterH
On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > Does that include glassware featuring the latest super hero movie art > and a set of steak knives? > > Hey, just asking here! :) It includes a warranty for freedom from software defects, which is more than Micro$shaft will give you

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-06 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:23 PM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Dennis Myhand wrote: > Perhaps zero cost for the hardware, but IBM will charge you one hundred thousand dollars PER MONTH, or more, for the software license. >>> >>> >>> Even if I don

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-05 Thread PeterH
On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Dennis Myhand wrote: >>> Perhaps zero cost for the hardware, but IBM will charge you one >>> hundred thousand dollars PER MONTH, or more, for the software >>> license. >> >> >> Even if I don't give it a line to call home? ;-) >> > > You only have to pay that if you

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:07 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: > > I have worked with IBM as a contractor and generally this company > was a > large inflexible monolith where the term "innovation" was virtually a > non entity. For the manufacturing, integration and operations arms of the company, ye

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-05 Thread Dan
At 8:37 AM -0500 12/5/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 12/4/08, Dan wrote: >>As for your clone argument... pt. The clone situation failed >>because they offered machines that had the same performance and >>were otherwise often better than Apple's. > >I don't understand what you're saying.

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2008, at 1:16 AM, PeterH wrote: > >> Perhaps zero cost for the hardware, but IBM will charge you one >> hundred thousand dollars PER MONTH, or more, for the software >> license. > > I thought IBM was pushing Linux now? > I thought

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-05 Thread Dennis Myhand
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:16 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Perhaps zero cost for the hardware, but IBM will charge you one >> hundred thousand dollars PER MONTH, or more, for the software license. > > > Even if I don't give it a line to call home? ;-)

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2008-12-05 Thread Sam Macomber
On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:54 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:58 PM, James E. Therrault > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> lampbay wrote: >>> Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not >>> the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but beca

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:16 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:12 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >>> IBM has targeted Power toward the high-end server and >>> supersupercomputer markets. >>> >> >> >> Cool, I can get one by trash picking in 10 years! LOL :) > >

Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-05 Thread lampbay
> The competition is actually a weird combination of hardware and OS. I love the fact that Dell's Linux packages are the same price as their Windows packages. Because the major cost is in the hardware not the OEM OS installed. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-05 Thread lampbay
As long as Apple remains a company committed to forcing users to buy their computer hardware to run their computer software, they will always be a second rate company committed solely to the profit motive and greed. But, as the future of computing is multi-platform - any desktop or lapto

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:58 PM, James E. Therrault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > lampbay wrote: >> Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not >> the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer >> Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any p

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 5, 2008, at 1:16 AM, PeterH wrote: > Perhaps zero cost for the hardware, but IBM will charge you one > hundred thousand dollars PER MONTH, or more, for the software license. I thought IBM was pushing Linux now? I thought they're a "service" company, not a "software" company? --~--~-

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread PeterH
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:12 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> IBM has targeted Power toward the high-end server and >> supersupercomputer markets. >> > > > Cool, I can get one by trash picking in 10 years! LOL :) Perhaps zero cost for the hardware, but IBM will charge you one hundred thousan

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM, lampbay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not > the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer > Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any pesky bugs to > deal with - that

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:21 PM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >>> To me, I would have favored an alliance with AMD rather than Intel. >>> Apple could have become part owner etc. >> >> The difference between you and Apple is that you'r

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >>On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >> Motorola is pretty much out

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Charles Lenington
lampbay wrote: > Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not > the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer > Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any pesky bugs to > deal with - that's the main reason I switched to Apple - afterwa

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:20 PM, lampbay wrote: > >> After all, Microsoft didn't >> crush Apple like it is rumored to have Commodore, Amiga and others. > > It's easy to crush competitors who shoot themselves in the foot wi

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread James E. Therrault
PeterH wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:54 AM, James E. Therrault wrote: > > >>It's a shame that IBM was not up to the task of delivering low power >>Power PC chips for laptops. But this is nothing new, IBM failed to >>adapt >>their (PS 2) OS to the Power PC maintaining compatibility with ear

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread James E. Therrault
lampbay wrote: > Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not > the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer > Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any pesky bugs to > deal with - that's the main reason I switched to Apple - afterwa

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2008-12-04 Thread Mark
Bruce Johnson wrote: > The closest Microsoft ever came to 'crushing' anyone was their > Internet coup against Netscape, and lordy, we're STILL paying for that > decision with every spam we get. > > Well, AOL helped that one, too. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You re

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:20 PM, lampbay wrote: > After all, Microsoft didn't > crush Apple like it is rumored to have Commodore, Amiga and others. It's easy to crush competitors who shoot themselves in the foot with machine guns first. Commodore squandered the lead they had by thinking it was

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread PeterH
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:54 AM, James E. Therrault wrote: > It's a shame that IBM was not up to the task of delivering low power > Power PC chips for laptops. But this is nothing new, IBM failed to > adapt > their (PS 2) OS to the Power PC maintaining compatibility with earlier > versions of the O

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2008-12-04 Thread lampbay
Only those close insiders know how Steve and Bill actually get along - perhaps now as friendly competitors. After all, Microsoft didn't crush Apple like it is rumored to have Commodore, Amiga and others. Or perhaps those companies crumbled from the sheer lack of user support. Perhaps, A

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread PeterH
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> To me, I would have favored an alliance with AMD rather than Intel. >> Apple could have become part owner etc. > > The difference between you and Apple is that you're not privy to > Intel's private development roadmap and skunkworks. If peopl

TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread lampbay
Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any pesky bugs to deal with - that's the main reason I switched to Apple - afterwards I discovered what

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Mark
Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > Apple's competitors are companies like Acer, HP and Dell, NOT MICROSOFT. > > The competition is actually a weird combination of hardware and OS. I love the fact that Dell's Linux packages are the same price as their Windows packages. --~--~-~--~~

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Dan
At 10:59 AM -0700 12/4/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:54 AM, James E. Therrault wrote: > > To me, I would have favored an alliance with AMD rather than Intel. >> Apple could have become part owner etc. > >The difference between you and Apple is that you're not privy to >Intel

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Dan
At 10:57 AM -0700 12/4/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >Apple will never make more money letting Dell sell OS X computers than >Apple selling OS X computers. This is the Clone Lesson. This is where we're going to have to disagree forever, I guess. Dell et al are going to sell those computers, no m

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:54 AM, James E. Therrault wrote: > To me, I would have favored an alliance with AMD rather than Intel. > Apple could have become part owner etc. The difference between you and Apple is that you're not privy to Intel's private development roadmap and skunkworks. If people

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Dan wrote: > > Which brings me back to my believe that Apple should do an open Mac > OS X, That's an underpants gnome business plan 1) Offer Open Mac OS X 2) ? 3) Profit! Selling OS'es is only profitable when you're getting manufacturers to install it on the com

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread James E. Therrault
Dan wrote: > At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >>On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >> Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >> hear

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread James E. Therrault
Dan wrote: > At 5:01 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >>Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >>heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. > > > What Peter said. > > Plus... Don't forget IBM's Power processors. The current batch from

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Dan
At 9:42 AM -0700 12/4/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Dan wrote: > > ...Of course, no decision gets made without a down side. Shortly >> after Intel released Core, AMD leapfrogged over 'em, then the PowerPC >> chips leapfrogged over 'em, then... > >Then Intel leapfrogge

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread PeterH
On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Dan wrote: >>> IBM is still among the largest semi houses in the world, although a >>> lot of it is "captive". >> >> Embedded industrial drones I presume. > > IBM has targeted Power toward the high-end server and > supersupercomputer markets. PPC is a winner, even

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Dan wrote: > ...Of course, no decision gets made without a down side. Shortly > after Intel released Core, AMD leapfrogged over 'em, then the PowerPC > chips leapfrogged over 'em, then... Then Intel leapfrogged 'em both. [Ars Technica]

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Dan
At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >>> heard of them making CPUs

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > We may be talking about two different events. I'm talking about the 1997 MacWorld, where Bill's Giant Head appeared on stage to announce Office 98. The sett

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Dennis Myhand
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> Microsoft paid $150 million for (non-voting) stock (with a "cannot >> sell prior to" date on the transaction) and guaranteed the >> continuation of MS Office for five years because they got caught >> stealing patented Quicktime code for WMP. >> >> That was a cour

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >> You may want to read up on How Bill gates got his start. > > > Bill Gates got his start by dropping out of Harvard and with his > Harvard room mate, sel

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >> heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. > > Motorola's CPUs are now made by its

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Dan
At 5:01 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. What Peter said. Plus... Don't forget IBM's Power processors. The current batch from IBM are very nice, and in ma

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > You may want to read up on How Bill gates got his start. Bill Gates got his start by dropping out of Harvard and with his Harvard room mate, selling a version of Basic for the Altair and other early computers. > And who gave

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread PeterH
On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't > heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. Motorola's CPUs are now made by its spin-off, Freescale. IBM is still among the largest semi houses in the worl

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:37 PM, AIM Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have too many thoughts on this subject to list right now, but I have > a feeling that Apple actually is behind this in a way...I will post > more later, but who else has noticed that since they've hit the scene, > the Mac m

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread PeterH
On Dec 3, 2008, at 8:37 PM, AIM Mail wrote: > I have too many thoughts on this subject to list right now, but I have > a feeling that Apple actually is behind this in a way...I will post > more later, but who else has noticed that since they've hit the scene, > the Mac mini has been all but forg

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread AIM Mail
I have too many thoughts on this subject to list right now, but I have a feeling that Apple actually is behind this in a way...I will post more later, but who else has noticed that since they've hit the scene, the Mac mini has been all but forgotten?. And BTW, I have a feeling that Apple a

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A bit of an update... > > > > "here's the big news. Apple alleges that it believes there are > corporations and/or individuals behind Psystar, who may be added as > defen

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread Peter
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Richard Ramsowr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > WOW > > Just yesterday, I again ask this very question on MacDailyNews... how > could a small start up pay for such legal support when there out of > business? > > Maybe I'm better at law that I through... > > Anyway, go

RE: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread John Ruschmeyer
> From: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of PeterH > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:47 PM > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement! > > > > On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Bruce Johnson

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2008-12-03 Thread Richard Ramsowr
WOW Just yesterday, I again ask this very question on MacDailyNews... how could a small start up pay for such legal support when there out of business? Maybe I'm better at law that I through... Anyway, good for Apple and there legal department... Yours Rick Rick Houston --~--~---

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread PeterH
On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> "here's the big news. Apple alleges that it believes there are >> corporations and/or individuals behind Psystar, who may be added as >> defendants once Apple in discovery finds out who they are. " >> > I've sort of taken this to mean that Psys

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Dan wrote: > > A bit of an update... > > > > "here's the big news. Apple alleges that it believes there are > corporations and/or individuals behind Psystar, who may be added as > defendants once Apple in di

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread Dan
A bit of an update... "here's the big news. Apple alleges that it believes there are corporations and/or individuals behind Psystar, who may be added as defendants once Apple in discovery finds out who they are. " oOo. LoL. LOL.

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-26 Thread Charles Lenington
Charles Lenington wrote: > PeterH wrote: > >> On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:40 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: >> >> >> Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). >>> Would yo

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-26 Thread PeterH
On Oct 26, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Doug Burton wrote: > Just my $.02 to add, check out the InsanelyMac.com forum on building > these systems. There is a wealth of info there: > > http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=137 The so-called "InstaHackintosh" project is perhaps the most interes

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-26 Thread Doug Burton
On Oct 26, 2008, at 12:34 PM, PeterH wrote: > > > On Oct 26, 2008, at 2:02 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: > >> Yes, please. > > General instructions: > > 1) Your choice of case and PSU (Antec 300 or better, with Antec 500 > "EarthWatts" or better PSU), > > 2) Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L or similar mobo,

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-26 Thread PeterH
On Oct 26, 2008, at 2:02 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: > Yes, please. General instructions: 1) Your choice of case and PSU (Antec 300 or better, with Antec 500 "EarthWatts" or better PSU), 2) Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L or similar mobo, 3) your choice of nVidia video card (any of the 7000, 8000 a

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-26 Thread Charles Lenington
PeterH wrote: > On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:40 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: > > >>> Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a >>> couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). >>> >>> >> Would you build one for me? >> > > I replied privately with a sug

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread PeterH
On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:40 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: >> Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a >> couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). >> > > Would you build one for me? I replied privately with a suggested parts list. Anyone who wants the same

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread James E. Therrault
PeterH wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > >>>The average buyer is not aware, and, more importantly, DOES NOT CARE >>>that MacOS X can be run on an Intel. >>> >> >>Apple does not WANT the public to be aware of this. Thus the >>alternative legal negotiatio

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread hackmiester / Hunter Fuller
2008/10/22 Kyle Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 10/22/08 3:16 PM, "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Broadcast into the ether: > >> And this has to do with Apple engineering how? Pixar has NEVER used >> Macs for render farms. They're used for the creative folk's >> workstations. >> >> Those

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This discussion is starting to remind me of the debate around the UMAX S900 > and other Mac clones that were prevented from an authorized upgrade path to > OS X. I think the discussion is as relevant now as it was then. I h

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Sam Macomber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Johnson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 10/22/08 3:16 PM, "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Broadcast into the ether: > And this has to do with Apple engineering how? Pixar has NEVER used > Macs for render farms. They're used for the creative folk's > workstations. > > Those were a warehouse full of intel machines in racks. I ha

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread PeterH
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> eworldsale.com is ALWAYS out-of-stock on those loss-leader items, so >> they are hardly the "exemplar" of cost comparisons. >> Pullz! >> >> And, who, besides Apple, mandates that you HAVE to have an anemic bus >> speed, such as 1

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:30 PM, PeterH wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >>> Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a >>> couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). >> >> >> >> Please point out where I can get a dual Xeon qua

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread PeterH
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > Pixar has NEVER used > Macs for render farms. They're used for the creative folk's > workstations. If Jobs' Pixar won't render his features using Macs then why should we buy Macs? Just buy whatever works, period. And, for some of us, that

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread PeterH
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a >> couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). > > > > Please point out where I can get a dual Xeon quad-core system with 2 > gigs of ram, Radeon HD2600 or equiv

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:09 PM, PeterH wrote: > > Did anyone notice that the last several Pixar feature-length > animateds were "rendered" using Intels, and not Apples? And this has to do with Apple engineering how? Pixar has NEVER used Macs for render farms. They're used for the creative folk's

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:58 PM, PeterH wrote: > Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a > couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). Please point out where I can get a dual Xeon quad-core system with 2 gigs of ram, Radeon HD2600 or equivalent video card

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread PeterH
On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> The average buyer is not aware, and, more importantly, DOES NOT CARE >> that MacOS X can be run on an Intel. >> > > Apple does not WANT the public to be aware of this. Thus the > alternative legal negotiation of this case. Keep it

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread PeterH
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > And it is not as if the high price tag means superior build > quality. Not > wanting to talk ill of Apple but for such a price they shouldn't > have so > many mistakes (hardware wise). Apple's hardware is fully-simulated, to the best of Appl

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Brian Durant
This discussion is starting to remind me of the debate around the UMAX S900 and other Mac clones that were prevented from an authorized upgrade path to OS X. I think the discussion is as relevant now as it was then. I have never accepted the logic that Apple must of necessity be the only hardware p

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Simon Royal
Hi And it is not as if the high price tag means superior build quality. Not wanting to talk ill of Apple but for such a price they shouldn't have so many mistakes (hardware wise). Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Sam Macomber
On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >>> >>> Can you hear that in the background? That is sound of the Linux >>> flavo

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:41 PM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The average buyer is not aware, and, more importantly, DOES NOT CARE > that MacOS X can be run on an Intel. > Apple does not WANT the public to be aware of this. Thus the alternative legal negotiation of this case. Keep it on t

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> >> Can you hear that in the background? That is sound of the Linux >> flavors creeping up to pounce on the market in a major way while Apple >> tries t

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread PeterH
On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > Keeping this cat from coming out of the bag with the holiday sales > season come up makes a lot of marketing sense. All that ad money > portraying Microsoft as stubborn and entrenched in it's own selfish > policies at the expense of

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > Can you hear that in the background? That is sound of the Linux > flavors creeping up to pounce on the market in a major way while Apple > tries to ignore the need of an Apple OS for the PC. AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:30 AM, Simon Royal wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> I thought this was a bit odd. Apple and Psystar come to a settlement. >> >> It seems Apple aren't going to bury the clone makers like everyone >> though

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread PeterH
On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > BY DEFINTION an illegal trust MUST involve MORE THAN ONE COMPANY. > > Apple, despite the fevered dreams of the 'iwaanacheepmac11!!' > crowd, a computer company with <10% of the market share, could not > POSSIBLY form an 'illegal monopoly',

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:30 AM, Simon Royal wrote: > > Hi > > I thought this was a bit odd. Apple and Psystar come to a settlement. > > It seems Apple aren't going to bury the clone makers like everyone > thought, > more of a slap on the wrist and stop building your clones. > > http://yro.slashdo

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-22 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 22/10/2008 01:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I thought this was a bit odd. Apple and Psystar come to a settlement. > >It seems Apple aren't going to bury the clone makers like everyone thought, >more of a slap on the wrist and stop building your clones. > >http://yro.sl

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