"the reason Apple never ported its OS on x86 is because Apple primarily is a hardware company"
This is also what I have always heard, but it's not by chance. Apple intends to make it's money from hardware. Apple is kind of like BMW. They could sell their engines to another car company, but people are willing to pay for the look and feel of the car. The engine is a selling point, but it's not the main reason people buy beemers. I think apple has always admitted they are more of a hardware company than a software company. Think about the profit margin of companies like dell and gateway - they have to sell in volume because they only make a little bit on every machine. Companies like alienware sell far fewer boxes, but they make a lot more per machine. As far as the mac mini, I'm also considering making it my next major tech purchase (it was a digital SLR). If I had to guess at the reasoning behind it I would say Apple is trying to get itunes fans to replace their old virus ridden computers with a cheap mac. I think it's really smart. Michael Nashid Hasan wrote: > 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 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
