I read somewhere that the reason Apple never ported its OS on x86 is because Apple primarily is a hardware company-- they make bulk of their profit from selling hardware and not software.
Nash John Hebert wrote: >--- -ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>What i don't understand is that, over 20 years >>later, the boat is still >>passing and Apple is still missing it. They could >>make billions off OS X >>if they'd just port it to x86. The market is >>practically begging for a >>secure, reliable, "standardized" OS to get away from >>Windows. If OSX ran >>on x86, i think it would be real competition for >>Linux, especially for >>people/companies moving to Linux to get away from >>Windows. >> > >I've often wondered the same thing. The only reason I >can think that Apple hasn't gotten into the x86 market >is that they would have to support drivers for all the >devices out there, for which Microsoft does not do a >great job. Apple has always aimed at providing an >excellent computing experience, so maybe they didn't >want to duplicate Microsoft's mediocre one. > >BTW, you _can_ run Darwin (the guts) on x86, just not >Aqua (the GUI): http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ > > >>But i'm actually thinking about getting a MacMini >>since they're pretty >>affordable and appear to be decent machines (haven't >>read any in depth >>reviews though). >> > >Same here! Now that there is a new Mac in a price >range I am willing to pay for, I am very interested. >And it's damn cute! > >John > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
