Apple Goes Intel...

Curt at Atari Museum curt at atarimuseum.com
Tue Jun 7 09:29:33 CDT 2005


Apple released Darwin for with the x86 platform, its VERY rough compared 
to OSX, but with some commercial effort it could be a full blown 
commercial platform port of OSX


Curt



Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>>>It won't work and you can believe Apple will do its utmost to ensure that
>>>OS "x86" only runs on Apple-blessed Intel boxes.
>>>
>>>I'm sure some clever folk will figure out a way to hoodwink OS X, but that
>>>will be the exception.
>>>      
>>>
>>After reading slashdot, I agree that Apple will make Intel Mac that
>>can triple-boot windows, OS/X and linux. Adding the fact that OS/X
>>will not run on anybody else's PC, the Apple Intel Mac might blow Dell
>>away.
>>    
>>
>
>Why on earth would Apple do that? Apple's money comes from their Mac sales,
>no matter what the iPod publicity implies. Do they want to chuck that by
>dropping into the commodity PC market? If they make a PC that can triple
>boot Mac, Windows and Linux, then it's an easy matter for someone else to do
>so, too.
>
>It's not going to happen.
>
>  
>


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