Apple Goes Intel...

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:01 PM


> From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at randy482.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:56 PM
>
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>>
>> I agree that more competition for Micro$loth is good.
>>
>> The biggest problem is that Apple has been kept alive by several factors
> two
>> of which are:  $ from Willy boy and the simple fact they are not just
>> another PC running Windoze.
>>
>>
>> If they become just another PC will they lose a marketing base and how 
>> big
> a
>> base could they lose?
>>
>>
>> Randy
>> www.s100-manuals.com
>>
>
>
> The only change a user would see when upgrading his G5 to an x86 Powermac 
> in
> a few years is a speed increase, nothing more. People used to buy Macs in
> the 68k era because they were the best desktop you can buy (multiple
> monitors, PnP that worked, high memory ceiling, SCSI, etc)  and the GUI 
> was
> decent. During the early PPC era the machines only had the processor going
> for them (very decent FPU) picking up standard x86 features (PCI, USB, 
> IDE,
> etc). Today the only thing going for Apple is OSX (tightly written to the
> hardware), and that is not going to change. People who don't like piecing
> their machines together and going through driver hell will stick to the 
> Mac
> no matter what was under the hood. Lately a Mac is for people who hate
> Microsoft and don't like messing with Linux installs.

The point is once you have another X86 computer you will see pressure to use 
the same software and pressure to use the same hardware.  A huge portion of 
the user base will want everything right now for no $.

This pressure that can be expected may lead (probably will lead) to a 
homogenous PC environment.

Even if Apple tries to tie their software to their hardware how long will it 
be before someone starts selling an emulated system on other systems.  From 
there will Apple watch people go that route or will they decide to directly 
compete.  By being able to take a cheap PC clone and running Apple software 
or emulated software on it that will put even more pressure to bring down 
the cost of Apple hardware.  With cheaper hardware and software what 
financial problems can that create for Apple?

How long will Willy boy wait to sell XP on the new MAC's, if not Willy then 
someone will.


Randy
www.s100-manuals.com