James McLaren, "and we all know how Microsoft treats their competitors" "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)"
Purely to argue -
Me,
First I think people need to stop viewing Microsoft (MS) as this huge evil out to kill you conglomerate. If they were so bad every PC user would still be on Windows 3.1 or better yet DOS. MS has been actively participating in many developments with Apple, I'll use bluetooth as one example. I think, and I am not sure, that MS actually owns part of Apple. Giving PC users an alternative to the Windows operating system (other than Unix or Linux) that actually provides them with applications that they can use and already are familiar with would be a huge advantage to PC users and Apple. I think Apple is on the verge of an extraordinary money make scheme.
Are You Crazy? Windows IS a scheme out to kill us! ;-) No they are not on the verge of an "extraordinary money make scheme." Where did you get that from?
As for drivers, Ms doesn't write all the drivers for Windows, the manufacturers of specific products do. When did you here about MS releasing a new ATI, Nvidia, or Creative driver? So Apple would have nothing to fear about it. As long as the manufacturers provided drivers everything would be fine. And I am sure the manufacturers would provide drivers.
I am no programmer and i don't know what would be easier to deal with as far as the two OS's go, but I love X and would much rather take advantage of my cheap PC hardware with a stable and well running OS. Maybe Apple would loose some money with hardware but they could always develop x86 systems and hardware for the x86 OS X.
It would take YEARS of 3rd party programmers to re-program all of their code to work with the x86 processors; it is a whole different architecture! Programming has to be done at 2 levels: the OS level and the hardware level.
Just to argue,
Mike (aka PC Tech)
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