Os X Eula

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Originally posted by paulwhannel
realistically, this is just a way to reaffirm that Apple does not support Mac clones, as they briefly did in the 90s... i doubt they give a damn about smalltime use, but they don't want other companies out there selling Mac OS compatable PCs...

paul

But there is a big difference between saying you don't support your software on a particular system and saying that some one who installs your software on a particular system is committing a crime.
Right now, there are not many PPC based systems out there not coming from Apple. But, if thr IBM chips continue to perform as advertised they will end up in more and more computers (maybe not PC's per say, but the are headed for the XBox for one). I am sure that people will be running Linux on it before you know it, that means MOL and OS X won't be far behind. Won't it be fun running Panther on something made by MicroSoft!

 

[Sun Baked]

Basically the Mac OS on Linux PPCs has not been a problem because the chipsets and the CPU speed has been lagging behind Apple by quite a bit.

But Mai and Marvell are catching up, if Apple does not plan on releasing a DDR2 machine with PCI Express until the end of the year -- there's a chance that Mai Logic could actually start shipping a better PPC970 machine than Apple (imagine that), even if it is a prototyping machine.

Mai Logic's Articia I System Controller and Teron I Series Systems
Mai Logic's feature-rich Articia I supports IBM® PowerPC™ 970 microprocessor, DDR 2 memory interface and other advanced peripheral interfaces such as PCI Express and PCI-X. The combination of IBM® PowerPC™ 970's performance speeds, the ultra high speed Elastic I/O technology and Mai Logic's AGP 8X compatible Articia I chipset represents a formidable solution in the embedded markets, particularly those requiring high resolution graphics such as multimedia, gaming, medical and aerospace industries. With built-in MPEG4 accelerator and TV decoder designed for developing integrated graphic and video subsystems, Articia I is well positioned to bridge the gap between the computer and the television as the worlds of entertainment and computing converge. Articia I is also equipped with self-repairing and self-testing functions to ensure performance stability.

The PowerPC™ 970 + Articia I based Teron I series solutions provide system developers scalability and synthesizability to meet the ever-increasing performance demands of future-generation devices, accelerate time-to-market, and minimize overall complexity. Samples of the Articia I chipsets, Teron I series systems, and PowerPC™ 970 processor are expected to be available in early second quarter of 2004.

If you look at their G4 systems, Mai has a chipset that includes some more advanced features than Apple's Intrepid Chipset.

Apple now has the competition on the PowerPC Platform (aka CHRP) they haven't had since they were finishing the CHRP standard, and MicroSoft was still shipping Windows NT for PPC.

There is excitement in the PowerPC Platform, but will people want to use OS X unlicensed, or the new kid on the block AmigaOS 4.0 (the all new PPC edition)?