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  • Quote: Originally posted by hmurchison Well you continue to believe that if you want but conventional wisdom states that Apple cannot fund their company properly by selling OSX for use on all computers. Have you heard about a very large compa…
    in How open will Marklar (OSX on x86) be? Comment by tidris June 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Simple Ranger And Jobs wasn't at the helm of Apple during the switch to PPC. I was refering to the switch from Motorola's G4 to IBM's G5. Jobs was there and it was his call, wasn't it? I can barely remember. Th…
    in Is the switch to Intel Jobs' worst business decision of his life? Comment by tidris June 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by melgross No, it wouldn't. That's your opinion and you are entitled to it.
    in Apple confirms switch to Intel Comment by tidris June 2005
  • Obviously a worse Jobs decision was not doing this years ago. Like the Intel CEO said, what took them so long? Just imagine what Apple's product line would be today if they had gone directly from Motorola to Intel.
    in Is the switch to Intel Jobs' worst business decision of his life? Comment by tidris June 2005
  • Neither. Apple has nothing to do with the Telephone company. It is just good old OSX. Think about LINUX that runs on PPC and X86 and nobody goes around trying to come up with silly names LINUXTel. When the new X86 machines start selling apple …
    in Apple+Intel Comment by tidris June 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by kwatson I've been holding out for the 'quad' with PCIe. I'm going to let this sink in for a few more days, then I think I'm out shopping for a dualie AMD64. My big decision will be - Windows, FreeBSD, or Linux? Man…
    in Apple confirms switch to Intel Comment by tidris June 2005
  • I wonder what this means for Darwin. If the complete Darwin source code continues to be available, what is going to keep hackers from making OSX86 run on any non-Apple X86 hardware they want?
    in Apple confirms switch to Intel Comment by tidris June 2005
  • The keynote is playing here: http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
    in Apple confirms switch to Intel Comment by tidris June 2005
  • I think this is absolutely fantastic. It means Apple has finally acknowledged the OS is what makes a Mac and they are now commited to using the best microprocessor available for the hardware regardless of instruction set. They will be able to use ch…
    in Apple confirms switch to Intel Comment by tidris June 2005
  • I voted for Intel second sourcing the PPC chips. This looks like a realistic scenario to me given Intel is capable of making low power high speed CPUs while IBM isn't. Another possibility is Apple using some non-CPU Intel chips but that wasn't one o…
    in What will Apple/Intel finally do? Comment by tidris June 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by wmf This has been rehashed to death in other threads. Given that a low-end PC is in the same price range as the Xbox 360, it doesn't make sense to use the 360 for general computing. You have it reversed. The 360 wi…
    in Future architechure Comment by tidris June 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by cubist Yes, the Xbox 360 could be used as a low-end personal computer, e.g. for home computing. The future corporate models could have a DVI interface and bigger hard drive. How can 3 symetrical PowerPC cores runn…
    in Xbox 360 Price Comment by tidris June 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by THT Apple isn't in the game console business, so, the answer is obviously a resounding no. From the specs I have seen the Xbox is capable of far more than playing games. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be us…
    in Xbox 360 Price Comment by tidris May 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by hmurchison Apple to Oranges. I can't run Final Cut Pro on a Xbox 360 That is true, at least until someone hacks OSX to run on the PowerPC based Xbox 360. However I don't think the $999 Final Cut Pro is relevant to …
    in Xbox 360 Price Comment by tidris May 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Brendon I know window users that are thinking about getting a Mini just for their kids to surf the internet and play music. I think that going after the general PC market is looking a gift hourse in the mouth. These …
    in yet another OS X on PC hardware thread Comment by tidris February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Me Let me get this straight--MacOS X x86 will have commercial software available because Apple will provide it. Is that your position? And MacOS X x86 will also be able to run X11 software, which you can run on Lin…
    in yet another OS X on PC hardware thread Comment by tidris February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by cubist Not bogus at all. Did you see my earlier post regarding NextStep for Intel? NextStep was a shipping commercial product from Steve Jobs' company, and it didn't support much of anything. Darwin uses X11, Aqua a…
    in yet another OS X on PC hardware thread Comment by tidris February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Qchem 3) Software availability - there would be nothing available for OS X x86, it wouldn't be fun trying to persuade adobe etc to produce OS X ppc, OS X x86, and windows x86 software Wrong. There would be plent…
    in yet another OS X on PC hardware thread Comment by tidris February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Chagi I agree with the statement made by others that OS X on x86 is unlikely, particularly due to the complexity involved with supporting such an enormous hardware base. The hardware complexity argument is bogus. …
    in yet another OS X on PC hardware thread Comment by tidris February 2005
  • This Cell chip could mean bad news for Apple hardware sales. Why? Because Sony and Toshiba will be selling Cell-based consumer level hardware that should in theory be able to run OSX and should be very price competitive with anything Apple can offer.
    in Cell details Comment by tidris February 2005