Be careful about what you wish for. To do what you want Apple would have to raise the price of their OS to $500-$600 like MS does. List price on a new Mac Mini, which includes the OS, is $599 (list price). A much better deal.
>I think in the end, if Apple started allowing os x on non apple x86 hardware >they would gain maketshare and not commit suicide as you put it. I know >many who would not spend the money to buy apple hardware to get the os, but >if I could buy the os and put it on my hardware I'd do it in a second. If >nothing else, Apple could release a product list of motherboards etc that >would be supported, or for that matter simply say if you put our os on your >hardware it's not supported at all. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
