Apple starts looking at X86...

I sounded good until they mentioned that it was unlikely that you could buy the OS off the shelf and install on current hardware. Oh well...

Why does anything that has the Apple logo have to be twice as expensive as it should be? DEC and IBM lived for years on the idea that if it had their names on it had to cost 2-30 times as much as it should have. Sure they made huge profits when they sold a system. They just didn't sell very many of them. Eventually this caught up with them and now they one is close to bankruptcy and the other has had their engineers drift away after they were sold. Dell and Gateway got where they are by selling decent machines at decent prices.

At a recent Apple show the joke was that Ipod stood for Idiots Price Our Devices. It might be kind of a kewl item. But for the same price I can get a Pocket PC!! It will not only play MP3's but also act as a PDA.

I can see it now. "Our machines are as fast as a PC now. We will have to charge 2-3 times as much if you just bought the same hardware yourself." That is the kind of arrogance that has been there bane and boon. Most people go "You want me to pay how much for what?!?!?!?" The few suckers they find then feel they must defend their purchase and become radicals "Yeah, a PC that was priced the same as mine would eat my machine for lunch, but my machine only uses one mouse button..... It is much less confusing..... Really, it is.... I like it that way... OK, you can stop laughing now... You know if you keep laughing like that your going to wet yourself... "

i agree many things are overpriced. remember though that when discussing x86 and motorola chips you can't just draw a simple mhz speed to price ratio. the speed of a 400mhz g4 has no relation to the speed of a 400mhz x86, for example.

nice!
migellito, at work i use a 800mhz G4. Teoric, it will be fast as 3 times the velocity indicates.
One month ago, on my home (where i make the skins) i have a G3 400 (that works as a PIII 800mhz), that was crashed ,: Then i purchased a new P4a 1,600 mhz.
All computers, the G4 and the P4a are very good and faster, but photoshop runs 3 times faster in the P4a! and Animation:Master (a 3d program for both computers) runs 2 times faster on P4a. OSX are really good, but runs faster Windows.
OSX is better than WIndows, because it have the best of Mac and Unix, and now there's lots of applications running on this system, but really is not pratic at wotk: My Laser printers don't work correctly, some programs don't recognize their file types (Freehand 10, Indesign 2). At work i allways use the 9.2.2 OS
But, if Apple releases a version of Mac OSX, or a Mac OS 9 with CarbonLib i will purchase this OS surelly!
This is not the first time that Apple are commented their intention of release the same Mac OS for Windows (remember Rapsody -the final Mac OSX), and only are released Darwin, the nucleous of OSX, but just a FreeBSD variation. In practice, APple only needs to apply the Quartz performance to Darwin to make the OSX for Intel computers, and compatibility to all hardware released specially for WIndows

The thing is, Apple users are like religous zealots (I used to belong to the Atari religion, so I can relate ). They'll pay just about anything that Apple charges, because they're not really looking for value.

According to the article though, they aren't going to release OS X for the PC. One will still have to buy a Mac, or at the very least, an Apple PC.