Mac OS on a Dell? Dell in favor, Apple opposed

MacCentral ^ | June 20, 2005 | Tom Krazit

[skinkinthegrass]

The Mac was fine. The Dell is fine. Whatever works for you...???MacSnobbery???..Don't flame me; it's just my $0.02.

Huh?? I used to own a Mac ('89), have a Dell ('03) had to switch, b/c of software...if it works it works...No Snobbery inferred/implied :D

[UseYourHead]

We're talking OS X, why are you talking LINUX?

Mac OSX is Linux or more correctly BSD with the Mac GUI built on top of it.

[tiamat]

Mac ping!

[mwyounce]

I see more PC Snobbery than Mac Snobbery... Just look at any thread on FR about Apple.

[pctech]

Good question, one for the more technically minded to answer. Any takers?????????

[SengirV]

Mac OS X != Linux in this regard. You'll do nothing but confuse people if we go down this path.

[Swordmaker]

Apple to Dell... no I won't go out with you... no , no, no! A thousand times NO!

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[N3WBI3]

"how long before we see MS-Linux?"

right after hells first snow day. if MS office , Exchange, and Visio were ported to Linux MS would create another (albeit small) competitor for desktop business..

[Kozak]

Lets see sell 2% of the PC's out there to run your OS, or have your OS run on oh say 30 to 40% of PC's? Duh.

[antiRepublicrat]

Mac OS X will only run on Macs.

That'll be hacked about five minutes out of the gate.

[SunkenCiv]

The Intel switch exhibits Jobs' devotion to keeping Apple a hardware company as well as a software company. Assuring everyone that Apple has no interest in licensing its software is a move to assure MicroSloth. Switching processor families is a bet the company manuever. Could be the entree to getting rid of Jobs for good, because such a move is bound to have an impact on Apple hardware sales, and licensing the OS would open up more market share for the OS.

[Rodney King]

On top of that, all customer service I understand, is run out of India...

They borught business service back to the US. Also, they are constructing two new large call centers here in Oklahoma City, perhaps they are for consumer... I don't know.

[Hank Rearden]

It would be a WIN, WIN for Jobs I don't see why he is opposed to it.

Because it's his religion. All his. And Wintel users aren't dumb enough to fall at his feet.

[solitas]

Since Apple will be designing their own board, they can do pretty much anything they want with the hardware to keep it all proprietary: special I/O chips (i.e. not consistent with regular wintel boards), different hardware mapping than that used by wintel boards, and so forth.

Windows ultimately _knows_ where to look for ports and ram space and rom space because all the wintel boards are mapped the same way. Apple doesn't have to do _any_ of that.

Look at it another way: WHY would they make software that could be used on _any_ board, just to have idiots start cloning it for everyone? Even with online registration, fingerprinting boards, and stuff, it's just not worth their time and money to combat it for the little profit they'd realize. "You wanna run our software - you gotta buy our board."

[B Knotts]

Sure, they can do that, but will they?

They had a proprietary motherboard and chipset before, and made a particular effort to standardize it (CHRP), and removed the proprietary ROMs.

Will they now undo all that? Maybe, but I don't think so.