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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53573

PC Mags writer John C. Dvorak discusses the idea that Apple may dump OS X and 'switch' to running Windows in a recent column:

The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who wrote to me convinced that the process

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yhancik · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:38 pm Post subject:

ahahah...

no

xxxx · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject:

Laugh now, in less than a year you might not be laughing anymore. I've heard this too but it's not as earth shattering because I saw it coming. Mac OS has always sucked even more so with that joke of a Linux OS. The only thing Mac 'was' good at was video editing but now with the latest Intel processors, Mac no longer has that advantage. Or at least it's capabilities are not far off now from PC. It was only a matter of time Apple would succomb.

yessum · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject:

Apple's just expanding its market reach.

Firewire was just an apple thing.
Now with the usb support apple has doubled it's market.

Apple is just making mooney.

Apple computers will never succumb to the microsoft operating system. It just wouldn't work. Apple has the multimedia market. Microsoft has the people + business. It’s bigger, yes, but it isn't stable/reliable enough for media-based work.

Media = Money.

djRom · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject:

It seems like most of the apple fanatics don't think this is the way its going. But it seems like everyone that I have talked to who isnt a total apple fanatic understands that its something that they are moving closer to.

Its a Windows kind of world no matter how you look at it.

veistran · Contributor Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 6

You could easily make the claim that the switch to the BSD based kernel for OSX was setting the stage for the switch to x86 processors. But that just makes money sense at this point, its too expensive to develop the entire computer, the performance gap just kept widening between x86 and PPC &c. But it seems like a real leap of logic to say that the switch from PPC to x86 indicates any interest on Apple's part to switch to Windows. Most everyone I know is much more interested in OSX for x86 than Vista plus its in Micrsoft's best interests for Apple to continue to develop their OS. This really just seems like wild speculation based on bad assumptions about why they made several sound buisness decisions.

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devilhood · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject:

I'm confident with Vista, the new beta build is a blast and things are starting to shape up.

Apple Mac fans tend to be very protective of OS X, the market doesn't look like it's going to decline any time soon, the attractiveness of the media support and simplicity is great.
Besides, the hacking community for the whole generic x86 platform compatability thingy-ma-jig is extremely positive and overwhelming too, I'm happily dual-booting Windows XP and a Mac OS X.