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Re: Apple goes Intel

Sat, 11 June 2005 13:49

thechuckster wrote on Sat, 11 June 2005 23:01

gearb0x wrote on Sat, 11 June 2005 22:16

i say bring on a switch from apple proprietry hardware to generic IBM-cloneness

so you'd rather have cheap-and-nasty and not quite standards compliant hardware - or something works 1st time out of the box and comes with built-in support for all kinds of devices and hardware?

Look here i mentioned that down there VVV

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Finally might be able to get a decent GUI based OS, only problem with that theory is, once they switch to non proprietry hardware they loose the edge with hardware support

I should have mentioned, i meant a good GUI based OS on 'affordable hardware'. I'm all for apples way of doing things when it comes to standards compliance, its just i cant afford it Smile

There are alot of benifits to cheap and nasty hardware, you can buy it everywhere, cheaply.. If something majorly fails you dont have to wait weeks for apple to fix your computer, etc (and dont give me any crap on cheap hardware failing, expencive hardware fails just as much)

The easiest way to say what i said before is, i would love a full on x86 OS-X port and i would switch to it in an instant. You get the ruggedness of a BSD based OS with the easy configuration only a good GUI can offer (AND you can use the shell if you so desire) if apple wanted to increase their share in the desktop market i believe this would be the way to go, but as you say 'cheap-and-nasty' hardware adds support issues to the table

As a software developer, a MAC is useless to me unless im developing primarily web/java apps, I would love a good Apple box running OS-X for day to day stuff but cant spare the expence to buy an expencive proprietry hardware PC. Now if they switch to 'cheap-and-nasty' i could just pull an old PC out of the cupboard and install it

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