I'll tell you this, the more time I spend with Vista, the more convinced I am that Apple is wrong. Not because Vista is great, but because if Apple would get off it's high horse and decide to be a software maker, it could sell immense volumes of OS/X for the PC market, and be an instant competitor.
Apple's closed system is what f*(& them, not Microsoft. I've played with OS/X 86 (legitimate, through a legitimate local developer) and the thing runs on virtually anything as long as I put the PCI card from them in. I've seen it run on AMD, old Dells, whatever. The thing works and runs smooth on most hardware, because at it's heart, it's linux type core still handles it. Which is what kills me about apple. They could have a significant slice of the overall PC market if they wanted it. Yes, I know they do well (6% of total market, which is not bad) but if OS/X were to be an option for any PC owner, they could capture a big slice of it as they'd have a lot more adopters of their product. CW > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Seitz > Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:50 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] iMac arrived today... > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 09:45:52AM -0400, Chris Klein wrote: > > 1) The older G5s just weren't powerful enough to run some of our more > > demanding applications. We have since moved all of our high end > > applications over to Precision 690s. > > right, the new ones are core duo based or in the case of the g5, Dual > Xeon. > > > 2) One of our major problems is with Mac profiles. For instance Jane > Doe > > gets married, and Jane's last name changes to Robinson. The Macs would > shit > > themselves over the name change and everything would go haywire. > > Yeah lol. > > > We still run them for the Viewmaster group. They have G5s, and 30 inch > > LCDs. > > Unf. > > -- > > Bryan G. Seitz
