On 6/28/05, Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I surely never thought that, but the potential new developers that > will have > mac on their pc's and could work in the OOo port to Cocoa and other Mac > toolkits.
One clarification - "Mactel* doesn't mean that Mac will run on *any* Intel system - according to Apple, You will still have to buy a Mac to run OS X. The wording of your sentence here makes it seem like software developers will just buy a copy of Tiger and slap it on their current system. That's not what's going to happen, at least not according to Apple. I'm sure someone will hack it (such a project already exists, PearPC) to run on non-Mac intels, but that's not what Apple is wanting to happen. All that the Mactel move means is that Apple computers - IE Macs - will have a different processor. These computers will be able to run Windows (and, presumably, any i386 type Linux) but Mac OS X won't work without a Mac-only ROM that will be built into all the Macs. I'm not sure the move to Intel will change much of anything, except it will let more Mac users try Windows and Linux, and it may drop the price of Macs, making more Windows and Linux users want to get a Mac. But it's not going to allow everyone will a pc to run Mac. Again, that is straight from Apple. Quote: However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said. Source: http://news.com.com/Apple+throws+the+switch%2C+aligns+with+Intel+-+page+2/2100-7341_3-5733756-2.html?tag=st.next non-wrappy link: http://tinyurl.com/8vwvz The quote is the last paragraph in the story. Anyway, I could be way off base in this correction, but I just wanted to clarify the situation. HTH! -Chad --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
