[MARINEOSX]

This may be old news to some but I just ran accross this sight and found it very interesting. So if you havn't seen it check it out.

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63456,00.html

I really like the part where they say that it would take a 150Ghz pentium prossesor to run os x in real time. Also that it runs approximatly 500 times slower than it does on apples machines.

What do you think would happen if they made mac os x to interface with all the hardware that is out there? So that dells, HP, and all the other companies could install it on there machines?

[d4nth3m4n]

see how the date on that article is may 17, 2004?

that should be a dead giveaway.

[Apple Pro Underwear]

there are more pressing things that are needed out there right now rather than another OS

like spam control that works

[Link]

With the optimized build of pearpc, the client CPU will be 1/15 the speed of the host CPU. A 3ghz P4 (or equivalent athlon) will run a client about as fast as a 200mhz G3.

[Ghoser777]

The whole OS X on wintel thing should be automatically timelined whenever it comes up. Can one of the mods fix this in the forum design?

[The Godfather]

Originally posted by Link:
With the optimized build of pearpc, the client CPU will be 1/15 the speed of the host CPU. A 3ghz P4 (or equivalent athlon) will run a client about as fast as a 200mhz G3.

That PearPC should be modified to run in a Beowulf cluster of 15 3GHz P4s.

[MARINEOSX]

Well d4nth3m4n first off I never said it was or was not old. I realize the date that is why I said "THIS MAY BE OLD NEWS TO SOME." There might be users that will find this interesting to look at, that have not seen it. I don't know? I could be wrong and no new members have joined or purchased there first mac in the last few months.

[yukon]

Well, it didn't say that in the title.

I'd ask for the two minutes of my life back, but I'd waste them anyway.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by MARINEOSX:
What do you think would happen if they made mac os x to interface with all the hardware that is out there? So that dells, HP, and all the other companies could install it on there machines?

This question has been answered plenty times over here, but the nutshell answer:

It would effectively kill Apple, since Apple makes its money off hardware pretty much exclusively. OS X, iLife, iTunes, etc. (and now Logic, Final Cut Pro, et al.) are NOT money-makers - they exist merely to get people to buy Apple hardware.

If they were to license OS X to other platforms,
a) that would eat into their own market share (as seen with the Mac clones experiment in the mid-90s that Apple only barely survived),
b) they would have to make OS X fairly expensive (think Windows) to make any money off it, greatly reducing its appeal, and
c) they'd lose one primary aspect of why OS X is so desirable, which is the near-total hardware control, allowing Apple to completely optimize functionality and reliability for a clearly-defined set of hardware. The huge variation in motherboards, slots, interfaces, CPU chipsets, bioses, etc., etc., etc., is one of greatest problems Microsoft faces with Windows.

-s*

[D'Espice]

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by MARINEOSX:
Well d4nth3m4n first off I never said it was or was not old. I realize the date that is why I said "THIS MAY BE OLD NEWS TO SOME." There might be users that will find this interesting to look at, that have not seen it. I don't know? I could be wrong and no new members have joined or purchased there first mac in the last few months.

that is the kind of situation when the search feature becomes your friend and you bump an old thread.

either way, it's a pretty impressive feat for two boys from Aachen.