> Now, how about OS X for Wintels? Well, I can dream, can't I? Apple has a version of OS X already compiled and running on x86 hardware, but releasing this version would pretty much destroy Apple. First of all, doing so would make them a direct competitor to Microsoft (whereas up to now they have just been co-habitating comparitively peacefully) and we all know how Microsoft treats their competitors. Apple's cash hoard is no match for Microsoft's. Second of all, Apple only has to have working drivers for a select number of peripherals, thereby ensuring strict quality control. The components that come in a mac and are made to work with a mac have to follow certain hardware guidelines. If Apple released OS X for x86, the number of devices and peripherals needed to be supported would be far too massive for Apple to cope. Any quality assurance Apple has now on hardware specs would be out the window (or they would make it known that only certain hardware is compatible, but, as BeOS users know, any such statement would no doubt draw the ire of windows-ites worldwide)
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