[TheForge] OT MS Outlook

[John Husvar]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 10:10 PM, Demon Buddha wrote:

>
>     A great OS, but unfortunately for the world, Apple is run by  
> dope-0s who will not port the OS to other hardware.  If they'd  
> opened their OS to the world in 82, there would be no such entity  
> as Microsoft.  OS X is an excellent port of BSD to the Mac.  Of  
> course, were they to open up to the world, problems would arise.

This year, Apple introduced their line of Macs running on Intel  
architecture, mostly on the dual-core processors. http:// 
www.apple.com/store

The $1299 iMac G5 competes with the $1299 iMac G5 Intel dual-core.  
Who'dathunk?

Remains to be seen who will finally come out on top in the continuing  
saga of The Great OS War.

Rumor has it Apple left off using the IBM PowerPC processors because  
IBM either couldn't or wouldn't make the G5 run cool enough for  
laptops or didn't think they could keep up making chips for Apple's  
expected doubling of market share this year. (I'll wait to see that.)

IBM just lately announced the Power 6 processor, said to run reliably  
at 4-5 Ghz and capable of 6 Ghz once perfected. They'll also heat  
your house, but them's the breaks.

Now watch the bloatware come! Programmers can now make multi-Ghz  
machines run like Kaypros. :)