Would you switch if . . .
Just a query. Would anyone switch if someone could offer you a computer that:
Housed Dual 64 bit processors at 3Ghz plus 256 bit velocity engines
DDR Ram (512MB as standard)
400 Mhz system bus
Firewire 2 (3 ports)
Internal ATA 166 200GB HD
USB ports - 4
Wildcat II graphics card
Wireless connection (a la airport) at 100Ms
Wireless keyboard and optical mouse
2 full size drive bays
Superdrive (as standard)
4 PCI 2 slots
AGP 8 slot
19" LCD
A roadmap that indicated a 50% power performance increase per year
All in a beautifully designed tower case for $3500
An OS that had a more funky but clearly Mac OS 9 interface feel
No CLI or file extensions
Could run Mac software out of the box under emulation 4 times faster than any apple offering
Protected memeory etc.
Feels like a mac, behaves like a mac and gives the user total control
All in a beautifully designed tower case for $3500
But . . .
It wasn't an apple, wasn't made by apple and didn't have the mac name,
would you switch?
Housed Dual 64 bit processors at 3Ghz plus 256 bit velocity engines
DDR Ram (512MB as standard)
400 Mhz system bus
Firewire 2 (3 ports)
Internal ATA 166 200GB HD
USB ports - 4
Wildcat II graphics card
Wireless connection (a la airport) at 100Ms
Wireless keyboard and optical mouse
2 full size drive bays
Superdrive (as standard)
4 PCI 2 slots
AGP 8 slot
19" LCD
A roadmap that indicated a 50% power performance increase per year
All in a beautifully designed tower case for $3500
An OS that had a more funky but clearly Mac OS 9 interface feel
No CLI or file extensions
Could run Mac software out of the box under emulation 4 times faster than any apple offering
Protected memeory etc.
Feels like a mac, behaves like a mac and gives the user total control
All in a beautifully designed tower case for $3500
But . . .
It wasn't an apple, wasn't made by apple and didn't have the mac name,
would you switch?
Comments
Actually if it "feels better than a Mac, behaves better than a Mac" I would switch too. But I get to be the judge if it feels and behaves better.
Sounds to me like you're summing up PowerPC emulation on a dual Athlon XP3000, which should be here by the end of the year?
OK, suppose they were able to offer it for $2000
and you could run your current software unaltered. Suppose that the system had the same metaphor as OS 9?
would you switch?
<strong>Sounds to me like you're summing up PowerPC emulation on a dual Athlon XP3000, which should be here by the end of the year?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I agree--sounds like a sales pitch. What's the OS, Linux with a Mac-like window manager? Or is Windows XP "more funky but clearly Mac OS 9 interface feel"?
The OS would be a brand new OS not a derivative of anything else.
I'm just wondering if, now that apple don't make any kick ass machines (and probably never will), is there a gap in the market for someone to step in with systems that are Macs in all but name?
And what would this mean to apple if it wereat all possible?
Would you switch?
I'm guessing this is some Wintel configuration and not a dream Mac. If I could get OS X on a Wintel machine, I'd build my own.
Simply having a GUI that's similar to MacOS's on a super-fast machine (like a dual Athlon) isn't going to pull people away from their Macs (well, duh). Personally, I look at the entire package - hardware and software.
I use the Mac because I liked OS 9 better than WinXX now that I'm on OS X getting me to move would be even more difficult than before.
Dave
You just render faster, FCP, Photoshop effects etc are totally realtime, DVD burning at 10x, etc.
would you switch?
<strong>That's not what I mean. Imagine the G4 (or whatever) in front of you then imagine it in the coolest case mock up you've seen. then turn it on (complete with new sexy starup chime) and start using it like OS 9 - knowing that all your software works as before. The onlt dif would be the hardware inside it which as I've said is effectively mac (just the way macs are made - not like a PC) just not apple.
You just render faster, FCP, Photoshop effects etc are totally realtime, DVD burning at 10x, etc.
would you switch?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Will this or won't this run Mac OS X? I don't wanna hear 'just like OS 9' I wanna hear "Apple's OS X" most/all of us Mac users are with Apple due to the OS - Apple has (almost) never been #1 when it comes to bleeding edge buzword compliant stuff but the OS Apple provies are just too good to walk away from just for DDR and a couple of dozen PCI slots (silly thing is 99% of the G4 tower PCI slots go unused).
Dave
The rest is such a pipe dream that I have trouble answering it.
How do you like THAT?
would you switch?