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Apple to Become Major Windows Distributor?
They’d better start selling Windows. Seriously, cash cow for them. You can now dual-boot into XP thanks to Apple’s recently announced Boot Camp.
Hell, I’d consider buying a Mac, never using the Mac features, and just using it as an XP laptop. The battery life on them is fantastic.
So yeah, sell XP / Vista, Apple. I dare ya ;-)
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about 5 years ago
Ain’t gonna happen. :-) There’s more useful ways (and lucrative!) for Apple to leverage itself in the Windows market without selling the OS. :-)
about 5 years ago
Put it this way, I’d seriously consider buying a Mac now… But I am NOT going to pay retail for a copy of XP or Vista.
about 5 years ago
Jeremy: re: your last comment. Exactly! I don’t know why people haven’t made more issue of this. These aren’t free operating systems–it’s hard to imagine *anyone* actually ponying up for both of them.
about 5 years ago
Dan agreed. Apple: the world’s largest motivator for Windows piracy, hah. Personally, I’d hope Apple would do it. Because then they’d realize how much more money they could make, and they could dump OS X in favor of just designing gorgeous hardware ;)
about 5 years ago
But for 10.5 which will be shown off in August, and hopefully released before Vista, there are rumors that they will be able to run windows apps inside of os x without the report.
And Jermey, we all know you’d buy a mac, install windows, and then realize how much you would rather work on the mac side, and then abondon the windows partition and use OS X.
Yep, it’s how it works, i’ve been there, done that.
about 5 years ago
Vista’s release has been put back to 2007 hasn’t it? – I think it’s coz they are having trouble getting an exact immitation of the worlds most superior OS… ;-)
about 5 years ago
Eric: If there was a way to run every Windows app inside OS X, yes I’d take a serious look at it. I still don’t like the UI, and I still don’t like the way things are done in OS X. But, I would seriously take a look at it :)
about 5 years ago
You should wait and see how much juice is required to get Vista to run. Most people have to upgrade their hardware when the new Windows comes. It has been the case of every major release of Windows since 3.11. The Vista version seems to be graphics intensive, and everybody without a decent 3d graphics card will get bad performance when running Vista. There is probably a lot of other new stuff that has churn around in the background also.
about 5 years ago
Jon, no offence, but you’re out to lunch. I’ve seen Vista running on Celeron 1.5GHz machines with 128MB of RAM. And running well. I’ve got it running on a 2.0GHz machine with 256MB of RAM and it’s just fine.
The graphics performance is based on the hardware you have: the better the hardware, the more Vista will throw at it. Slower machines run faster on Vista than on XP. Which, factually, has been the way every Windows release since 98 has been due to better memory management, paging, caching, virtual memory improvements, etc :)
Yeah, they’ve all had more than their share of issues. And yeah they’ve all required serious work. Nobody’s expecting Vista to be perfect. But it *will* run on today’s hardware, and it’ll do so just fine and dandy :)
about 5 years ago
PIGS CAN FLY JEREMY. you might wanna consider merging The AfterMac and Windows Vista blog ;)
about 5 years ago
I humbly enter this arena of SmartTalk. The UI in Mac OSX makes this artist weep (for joy), compared to the UI in PCLand. In my opinion, it just takes some getting used to.
Of course, when the Mac viruses start to live off the land, then I may begin to be shaken from what seems to be a loftier perch than I ever felt with Windows. Of course, I haven’t touched anything fresher than XP, and I may be wowed.
I do agree with Jeremy on one point – Apple’s sheer design prowess makes me want them to grace my physical desktop with more of their gadgets, not less. I don’t need anymore dominant black with little bits of blue or silver – silver, white and clean bring the euro buzz I dig.
And stuff.
about 5 years ago
XP runs quite well out of Boot Camp. We’ve got one machine running it at work. I would definetly consider buying an macBook Pro, and running the Doze on it… but like Jeremy says… if they sold XP onboard, OEM style… Savings galore!