I'd much rather buy a new core duo portable for under $1k, than a new macbook pro for over $2k, if it will run O. S. ten just the same. Granted, we're not quite there yet, but it is looking good. :)
Gloom and doom? I don't see any here, unless you happen to have something against Apple. I see this as a Good Thing (tm) since it will make the Switch (tm) easier for so many who are still stuck in the 'doze world -- mostly the folks I know there are stuck due to lock-in on business applications. Bye, bye, road-blocks.
As for dev's writing for one platform only: Maybe. I see some FUD there, as Java promised it, and delivered to spec (but not to marketing hype)... so we have java on most all platforms, but most serious app-devs will support the actual platforms on which people run their code -- not just the JVM :)
Apple's done well to make Java easy on Macs, IMO.
Ranting and diversions aside, this looks like a big win for Apple. They're coming out ahead of the curve to consumers again. By being among the first to up the ante in our endless cat-and-mouse (think spy-vs-spy but with a duality of tux/daemon vs a M$ smurf?) they'll help keep good pressure on all the recent hype about virtualization and hypervisors. I'm looking forward to seeing what VMware and Microsoft, among others, have to counter.
regards,
Ben
PS - on a sun blade? ...
On 4/6/06, larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
On 4/6/06, T. Joseph CARTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> Two decades after the first Mac arrived, Apple said Wednesday that it
> would offer users of its latest models a simple way to run the Microsoft
> Windows operating system as well as its own.
The outfit whose business model just took a large hit because of this
isn't MSFT it's DELL, given a choice between buying some workstations
to cover one environment and some workstations to cover the other and
buying a set of workstations that supports both of the major software
environments (and linux/bsd/whatever) which would you choose? (think
schools and other institutions that buy large volumes of multipurpose
workstations, and have a budget process for replacing stuff on a
schedule)
>
> That means a single Apple computer will run programs written for either
> the Mac or Windows, though it will have to shut down one system to start
> the other.
>
And that limitation is already avoidable.
> Indeed, although much is still made of the rivalry between Apple and
> Microsoft, and Steven P. Jobs, Apple's co-founder and chief executive, has
> continued to poke fun at Microsoft's struggles to modernize Windows, Apple
> has steadily moved to accommodate itself to the rest of the computing
> world.
Now if Microsoft would do the same...(I swear if IE 7 isn't bug for
bug compatible with Firefox/Mozilla I will personally go around
telling all the people that ask me for computer advice that Windows
Vista will give them cancer and and sap their libido)
> "It's a great thing for Apple," he told a reporter by e-mail. "I don't see
> the earth being rocked, but I can now recommend Apple hardware to a lot
> more people. One pitch is that if Windows gets too frustrating and
> unbearable and unsafe, then they can easily switch."
Estimates as to how long before Apple releases an open source project
that lets you turn any universal binary into a windows executable...
> Apple said Wednesday that it planned to make the Boot Camp capability a
> standard feature of the next version of OS X, which is expected to be
> introduced later this year or in early 2007.
With the ironic consequence that Apple could become one of the biggest
retailers of Microsoft Operating Systems...
> But because the Macintosh programs are shut down when Windows to read and
> write information to the Macintosh file system, Mr. Schiller minimized the
> risk that Macintosh users might be taking in adding Boot Camp.
How well will this play with encrypted volumes, because if your Mac
side isn't encrypted, it wouldn't take a full filesystem driver on the
windows side to allow for stupid rootkit games on the darwin side.
> Several companies, including VMware, a subsidiary of the data storage
> company EMC, are working on a technology that slips a thin layer of
> instructions underneath the existing Macintosh operating system. Such an
> approach would conceivably allow the Macintosh to run Macintosh, Windows
> and Linux programs simultaneously at full speed.
Yeeha! Let the games begin. I can imagine some fairly grotesque
pipelines built on this stack, with much pointless crossing of OS
boundaries. In fact this server virtualisation stuff makes me think
that in the future every developer will act as though they have an
entire machine to themselves, and expect the virtualisation to make it
so...
An emulation of a mac running on an emulation of a windows machine
running on an emulation of a linux machine running on an emulation of
a mac running on a partition on a Sun Blade...
Bwahahaha.
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