Re: [vox-tech] Mac OS X on intel?

[David Siedband <david@caltMAPSeg.org>]

As much as I consider myself an advocate of open source, I bought a mac 
last year, because it allows me be more effective in my work and thus 
justify the higher cost.  As a web developer I use Dreamweaver, because 
it les me work more efficently than any open source web editor out 
there.  With OS X, I can do pages in Dreamweaver and also have a 
complete developing environment on my local machine: Apache, PHP, Zope, 
PostgreSQL, etc.  OS X also lets me run a lot of opensource apps like 
gimp, openoffice, etc.  In 8 months it has never crashed, never frozen. 
There are also several audio apps like Reason available on OS X that 
don't yet have competitors in the open source realm.  I hope this will 
change soon.  I don't think Apple has any intention of porting their OS 
to Intel hardware.  One of the ways that they are able to provide such a 
stable operating system is in the extremely narrow range of hardware 
that they have to support.
--
David

Jim Long wrote:

> When I was in the market for a new computer a while
> back I almost bought a mac just for OSX.  But in the
> end, the higher price (compared to a PC) kept me away.
> If my case is at all common, offering OSX for intel
> based hardware doesn't seem like it'd make much sense
> to Apple from a business point of view.  PC users who
> might otherwise 'switch' to a mac would just buy OSX
> for thier intel machines.
>
> (That's what I'd do, at least)
>
> Jim
>
> --- "Micah J. Cowan" <micah@cowan.name> wrote:
>  
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:24:51PM -0800, Ryan
> > wrote:
> >    
> > > Does anyone know if it's possible to put OS X on
> > >      
> > an Intel PC?
> >    
> > > -ryan
> > >      
> > Not currently; however, there is talk of Apple
> > switching to
> > Intel-based CPUs for future hardware, and
> > documentation of their
> > Operating System architecture also hints strongly at
> > this possibility.
> >
> > However, I have also heard that such Apple hardware
> > would still be
> > largely incompatible with "IBM PC" style computers.
> > Dunno in what
> > ways...
> >
> > HTH,
> > -Micah
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