Especially since intel uses related families of chipsets now. Very much like Apple did with the U-series of chipsets.
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'OpenMac' Promises $399 Headless Mac... But Not From Apple
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Especially since intel uses related families of chipsets now. Very much like Apple did with the U-series of chipsets.
No it wasn't, the Mac was dead before Jobs came back, and NEXT had some of the best frameworks available for any platform at the time, so they were an ideal fit.
Sad but true, I didn't think of that, Apple will have to sue.
Hey, as a server in a cupboard, if it ran OS X Server I would be too bothered by its looks.
I don't see why it wouldn't...
Before Jobs took over Apple was losing a quarter of a billion dollars per quarter and only had 2 billion in reserve.
CORRECTION: Half a billion per quarter with a quickly dwindling 2 billion in reserve.
its a great way to go actually, selling machine w/o OS, There is nothing illegal here, just a flock of users who breaks EULA.....lol
on the other hand, I doubt this will be a earth crashing threat to apple....
What apple as a company got with SJ is quite different from what mac user community got with SJ.Before Jobs took over Apple was losing a quarter of a billion dollars per quarter and only had 2 billion in reserve.
Apple as a company, got $$$, got rich
Apple users, got cult, got twisted facts. And some of them actually believe those false info.
Apple users also got OSX, which is obviously a great improvement. How much does OSX have anything to do with SJ? IDK, someone tell me the story?
Great news
This is great & I hope the openmac is a success.
We would not be having this discussion if Apple did not rip people off with their stupid configurations..
Mac Mini = (laptop parts in a desktop, user need a paint scraper to open up, overpriced for what you get = dumb idea)
imac = (cheap LCD & you have to buy new LCD every time you replace)
This is great & I hope the openmac is a success.
We would not be having this discussion if Apple did not rip people off with their stupid configurations..
Mac Mini = (laptop parts in a desktop, user need a paint scraper to open up, overpriced for what you get = dumb idea)
imac = (cheap LCD & you have to buy new LCD every time you replace)
It kind of depends of what you're looking for. When it comes down to like hard ware in a like role, what Apple offers isn't that much more expensive. The problem comes from the many mismatches based on Apple's hardware choices. If you have to use a professional workstation as a desktop, its going to be much more expensive. If you have to get a premium thin and light, its also going to be much more expensive than a normal 15 or 17 inch laptop.
The Mac mini is the desktop version of the MacBook. No more, no less (except when the update lags behind the MacBook, as it is right now).
Why do people keep calling the Mac mini "worthless" yet they don't say anything bad about the MacBook?
My whole company runs on a Mac mini. That's everything from product design, invoices, email, etc. Not everyone needs the power of a Mac Pro or wants a built-in display like the iMac. And the low-end Mac mini is half the price of the low-end iMac, meaning that I can upgrade my computer twice for the price of a single iMac.
If the Mac mini is "next to worthless" in your opinion, then don't buy it. There's a lot of people out there who either can't afford anything else (as far as Macs go) or don't want a laptop, an all-in-one or a gigantic Mac Pro. And an Xserve under my desk would just look silly.
Only difference from getting a dell or a Cinema display, is the fact that your paying for a definite S-IPS display. Dell on the other hand.....your in the panel lottery:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1111100
What about the ModBook? That's a 3rd party Mac tablet and they didn't get sued into oblivion.
If they made a deal with Apple, it could work out. Maybe Apple will see it like the ModBook- a product they don't feel is lucrative enough to produce, but an opportunity to make a few bucks of a smaller company willing to risk it.
If they made a deal with Apple, it could work out. Maybe Apple will see it like the ModBook- a product they don't feel is lucrative enough to produce, but an opportunity to make a few bucks of a smaller company willing to risk it.
They were a lot more of a cult beforehand.
True.
A lot, it is based on NEXTSTEP which was created by NEXT computing which Jobs founded after leaving Apple the first time, NEXT created Cocoa too.
This article is pretty evenly matched in the positive to negative ratings. The difference between this situation and another PC manufacturer coming out and marketing its wares as "Windows compatible" or "Windows pre-installed" is that Microsoft would love to sell more OS's and would probably find a way to allow it. I personally will not end up buying one.
Same here. I do hope that there becomes an option to run Mac OS X on a PC for those niche models... (Tough Books, real ultra-portables, etc.) but this isn't what I or many were looking for. This is not only ugly, but will most likely cause the user a lot of problems when it comes to running Apple and 3rd party software. The fact that updating the OS would cause problems and you have to check their website destroys the main reason for wanting a Mac.
If you have to go through all of that just to keep the machine running and have uncertainty in running software you might as well not even bother with it.
I can't believe anyone would have the balls to try and cash in on Apple like this. This is a total slap in the face to the Mac community. I'm sure there are some wannabes that would love a $400 Mac. I say to them: Go buy a Mini! As for the rest of us, the Apple faithful, we should be up in arms at this. We spent our hard earned cash to buy the real deal. We should not support this company's attempt at cashing in on Leopard, the Mac, or Apple.
How can offering to install Leopard and iLife not be construed as advertising an OS X capable machine?
That's WAY different. They are just taking MacBooks and modifying the screen and case to make it a tablet. Then putting some tablet software on it.
This tower is taking various parts and pieces and making a box that can run Leopard. It's like selling a hackintosh.
And remember the ModBook is quite a price jump from the Mac Book.
well, I guess I have to admit OSX is a great thing that happens to mac users.
I would give SJ credit for his foresight through that time.The ModBook is made from an Apple MacBook, meaning Apple sells one MacBook for each ModBook.
This OpenMac is made from regular PC parts, meaning Apple loses a sale for every OpenMac sold.
Not to mention the increased tech support and public opinion problems this would create (i.e. "But I bought Leopard legally!", "OS X is crap, it keeps crashing"*, etc).
* = emulated EFI, Apple updates untested on OpenMac, etc. I'm not talking about "Apple parts" vs "PC parts", which is just silly.
edit: Digital Skunk beat me to it.