06-04-2005, 07:35 PM
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06-07-2005, 01:39 AM
omg...this has been all over the web. This is really getting boring... :-?
06-07-2005, 06:54 AM
We still won't be able to run OS X on a PC - it'll probably require special hardware like the Mac BIOS or something. But at least it'll be easier to emulate and easier to port to.
Quote:omg...this has been all over the web. This is really getting boring... :-?Everywhere except here - so what if you and I have already heard about this?
06-08-2005, 08:09 AM
TBBQ, you DO realize you hang on a site dedicated to a "dead-since-the-last-iceage" programming language? Right?
06-09-2005, 01:37 AM
SC, these are speculations. There hasn't been any official word from Apple...
06-09-2005, 10:47 AM
Quote:SC, these are speculations. There hasn't been any official word from Apple...There has been now. :lol: Steve Jobs himself announced it. Read all about it.
06-09-2005, 06:46 PM
After careful consideration, I've decided that this is a stupid move on their part. By tying up the hardware side of things, Apple had guaranteed a uniform experience AND easily slipped under Microsoft's radar. By trying to sell MacOS 10 as an OS under the commodity x86 platform, they're going to end up both diluting their platform with mutliple hardware configurations and damaging their software linups reputation by allowing greater accessability for bottom-tier developers. The only up side to this would be helping lock in users to MacOS so they'll grab a full Mac system later.
I predict that within a year of the first release, Apple will remove MacOS x86 from the market.
I predict that within a year of the first release, Apple will remove MacOS x86 from the market.
06-09-2005, 09:08 PM
Apple looks like they are jumping in when the P4 cores are on their way out and the Dothan core (Pentium M) based desktop chips are on their way in. An overclocked (2.5GHZ) Dothan core already beats the 3.8GHZ Prescott P4 in many gaming benchmarks, while releasing much less heat (even when OC'ed).
AMD would have been a smarter choice, but their plants can't produce as many chips as Intel can.
AMD would have been a smarter choice, but their plants can't produce as many chips as Intel can.
06-09-2005, 11:07 PM
I don't think that Mac's going to make a PC version, just they're going to use intel CPUs in their computers, because IBM's goofin' up on the G5 laptop and lack of variety in PPC chips.
06-10-2005, 12:00 AM
With OSX's kernel being open source it could be quite easy to get around the security measures Apple sets up to prevent it from running on ANY x86 PC.
I'm guessing a hard drive swap with an x86 Mac could do the trick, as long as the Mach/Darwin kernel is modified by the standard BSD kernel sources to support non-standard hardware (standard PC BIOSes, AMD chips, different Intel chips, etc). Someone will do it eventually....
I'm guessing a hard drive swap with an x86 Mac could do the trick, as long as the Mach/Darwin kernel is modified by the standard BSD kernel sources to support non-standard hardware (standard PC BIOSes, AMD chips, different Intel chips, etc). Someone will do it eventually....
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