from the link that radek posted: "If Intel was able to own the Mac OS and make it available to all the OEMs, it could break the back of Microsoft."

see how it always comes back around to licensing the o.s.? i'd sure like to see that happen! i hate microsoft because of it's software licensing agreements.

unfortunately it's the only game in town for software developers who want market share for their products, so it's the only choice for computer users who don't want to be severely limited in their software choices... a classic example of that is the abysmal lack of decent mpeg2 and wmv encoding software on the mac side of the fence.

speaking from the dinosaur perspective :-)

back in the mid-'80's, none of the engineers i worked with wanted macs because they had a dinky little 9-inch screen, while the dos-based pc's had 12-inch screens.

the little macs also kept burning up flyback transformers because they overheated so badly... of course i had a couple of professional electronics purchasers at my disposal to source repair parts, but they were unable to come up with anything... it took me many days to find the parts, which was the beginning of my hatred for the poorly-designed apple hardware.

Wow...that's going back a ways. I completely forgot about those problems. LOL! Yes, if I recall correctly, you had to use a bleeder resistor to discharge the flyback transformers before you replaced them (or the faulty capicators, another common associated problem) or else you could actually be KILLED!!! The later all-in-one units (SE/30 and newer?) included a built-in bleeder resistor. Usually. ;-)

It's hard to disput that those original Macs were--ahem--"lacking" in many ways. The GUI made them a one-trick-pony really, but beyond that the PC was a superior machine in most ways. And to be completely honest, the Atart ST and the Amiga machines were really better computers in many ways than Macs of the same time period.

But they sure were cute. ;-)

I hate it more.

Radek

Maybe at least Apple will start using PCI Express instead of the dead end PCI-X interface. Too bad they didn't go with AMD, would have been a cool fit. Dual Opteron dual cores kicking the crud out of Intel. Maverick with Maverick.
I guess Steve Jobs is getting 'safe' in his old age.

I may actually buy one once they cross over. I've heard BSD is a pretty stable and secure OS. (Yes campers, Mac OS is based on BSD, not Unix or Linux).

Wow....how many more half-truths can we stuff into these recent Mac/Intel threads? LOL!

Yes, Mac OS X is definately BSD...but you're wrong in saying that it's not UNIX; BSD is one of the two major flavors of UNIX (AT&T and BSD). Yes, BSD not the holder of the intellectual property rights of the original implementation of UNIX, but it's a totally legal open-source derivative of what AT&T UNIX was in the late 1970's. In fact the modern AT&T UNIX SVR4 (and +)--put together in the late 1980's--contains huge chunks of BSD (since it was open source, and they could take it). Heck, there's not a modern networking computing device on the planet that doesn't contain some sort of a derivative of BSD UNIX, namely TCP/IP.

ATT and BSD are both are accepted as "real" UNIX, both have been sold commercially as "real" UNIX, and both have been supported commercially as "real" UNIX. Geesh, initially the two kernals shared around 80% of the same code base!

Linux, on the other hand, is a "UNIX-like" clone, and is built around a completely different kernal that shares 0% of the code base. Linux looks like UNIX, it quacts like UNIX, and it waddles like UNIX...but Linux ain't UNIX.

The only way you can say that BSD isn't UNIX is to split hairs at a microscopic level and talk about the original intellectual property rights war that's been going on for years. Don't believe SCO's legal propaganda....no matter what the lawyers want to fight about, they can't change 30 years of history.

Ah yes that brings back some memories... I first learned unix on DEC VAX systems running BSD in the mid eighties, and I learned all about System V on my AT&T 3B/1 "unix pc" which ran on a Motorola 68010 :-) I always liked the BSD implementation better.

Here's another AP story on the transition:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050610/apple_chips.html?.v=2

Interesting thing here is that Apple can use Intel's "Lagrande" technology to insure that OS X will only run on their own hardware:

Which has better optimization?
 

When the process is all said in done we will see which OS has better optimization!

It uses Unix command structure, but is not official System V Unix (the one supposedly owned by SCO). They all share command structure, and it's easy to recompile Linux to BSD. But I think the BSD folks would take exception, they think Unix came from them, hehehe.

So just like I guessed, you're splitting hairs over legal ownership issues. :-)

I think this is a good thing--- digging deeper reveals many positives.

Speaking with Mike Curtis over at hdforindies.com helped too:

Listen to June 12th's podcast:
http://www.thedvshow.com

do you guys think the G5 power books will be out before they put the intel chip in mac a year from now? Or will they wait a year and some until they release it?

There is not now, nor will there ever be, a G5 Powerbook from Apple. This is one of the many reasons that Apple is leaving IBM's PPC and moving to Intel, imo. The Motorola PPC's in the PB's may have room for a speed bump, or some think a dual core type configuration.

Dude, you're gettin' a Dell... with OS X?
 

Interesting article at fortune.com:

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastf...?promoid=yahoo

Despite my experiences, of all the PC's I've worked with, Dells are solid performers in the hardware end of things. My latest Dell 650 has some quirks, and the processors run too hot. However, service and support are excellent, and I've gotton parts next day.

I can attest that much of my woes are OS and software, and all the extra hardware I've crammed into them (a side-effect of do it yourself windows. Easily cured by getting a preconfigured system). I have an old 420 and even some GX1s from the windows 95 days that still boot and run.

I think a Mac OSX would be a good fit on a Dell, and I think Dell would provide excellent qualified solutions. Such a marriage, in my opinion, would create a very stable system, on stable hardware. If Jobs were to get out of the hardware bizz, then Dell could easily take on that responsibility.

On the AMD side of things, BOXX tech seems to be the hardware winner. (Which what I'm looking into now). As the article suggests, AMD is also wanting to partner with Dell, and they currently have the fasted Processor. Hmmmm.

This is an interesting article about Theo de Raadt who authored Open BSD, where he trashes Linux.

http://www.forbes.com/intelligentinf..._0616theo.html