Because Apple would promptly go out of business.
If Apple ported their Mac OS X to x86, it would be no time before hackers would reverse engineer and eliminate any hardware or software protection and make the free version available on KaZaA, iMesh, Gnutella, etc. Why buy a Mac when you download one for free? Only die hard fans would buy a new one.
With the free warez version of Mac OS X, anybody could download and run any Mac OS X program using a dual boot partition program on a WIntel/AMD PC without having to buy a new or old Mac, and run OS X faster to boot with the new 3.06GHZ P4HT.
It would open a huge pandora's box since most of the hacking is on the Windows side, not Mac. That's why baby.
Going with the IBM 970 or praying for a killer G5 is their only hope.
Peter
If Apple ported their Mac OS X to x86, it would be no time before hackers would reverse engineer and eliminate any hardware or software protection and make the free version available on KaZaA, iMesh, Gnutella, etc. Why buy a Mac when you download one for free? Only die hard fans would buy a new one.
With the free warez version of Mac OS X, anybody could download and run any Mac OS X program using a dual boot partition program on a WIntel/AMD PC without having to buy a new or old Mac, and run OS X faster to boot with the new 3.06GHZ P4HT.
It would open a huge pandora's box since most of the hacking is on the Windows side, not Mac. That's why baby.
Going with the IBM 970 or praying for a killer G5 is their only hope.
Peter