That's partly true, but Mac people buy macs as much because Apple knows how to design hardware as well as the OS. I think the big problem with supporting OS X on an Intel platform is that people would have a very "less than Mac" experience when running Mac OS. You'd have to support technology like floppy drives, serial ports, parallel ports, and tons of non-standard junk. Plus general lack of firewire technology and all. Then when things aren't working right, they'd blame Apple for not supporting their non-standard configurations.
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That's partly true, but Mac people buy macs as much because Apple knows how to design hardware as well as the OS. I think the big problem with supporting OS X on an Intel platform is that people would have a very "less than Mac" experience when running Mac OS. You'd have to support technology like floppy drives, serial ports, parallel ports, and tons of non-standard junk. Plus general lack of firewire technology and all. Then when things aren't working right, they'd blame Apple for not supporting their non-standard configurations.
ah, but I believe in the 'raise the bar' theory. that is, when there is something that needs to be jumped over, there will be tons of jumping.
to this point, Wintel box designers have a low bar to jump over--they're putting together boxes for a clunky, ugly system. the hardware matches the software.
if they were designing for a system that may run Mac (or another pretty OS), surely they'll up their output.
we may be Apple fans, but we'd be naïve to think that the only good industrial designers working in the PC market have landed at the Infinite Loop.
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to this point, Wintel box designers have a low bar to jump over--they're putting together boxes for a clunky, ugly system. the hardware matches the software.
if they were designing for a system that may run Mac (or another pretty OS), surely they'll up their output.
we may be Apple fans, but we'd be naïve to think that the only good industrial designers working in the PC market have landed at the Infinite Loop.
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Apple can still make the machines...
Let's consider, though, the idea that Apple still manufactures the machines -- they just use x86 instead of PPC.
Right now, many would argue that Apple's commitment to the PPC architecture -- particularly Motorola's PPC -- is their Achille's heel. A switch to x86 would eliminate this weakness in Apple's current offerings .
That's obviously MUCH easier said than done from a technical standpoint, but there is something to be said for the idea, I think.
-Ed
Let's consider, though, the idea that Apple still manufactures the machines -- they just use x86 instead of PPC.
Right now, many would argue that Apple's commitment to the PPC architecture -- particularly Motorola's PPC -- is their Achille's heel. A switch to x86 would eliminate this weakness in Apple's current offerings .
That's obviously MUCH easier said than done from a technical standpoint, but there is something to be said for the idea, I think.
-Ed
Re: Apple can still make the machines...
Alex
This has all been beaten to death elsewhere on the forums. Let's not go there again...
Alex