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> That may even have been mentioned by Jobs at the time of the Intel
> announcement.

I'm not sure if it was Jobs, but someone did confirm that they were  
going to do nothing to their hardware to firmware-disable Windows  
from being installed and run.



> "In one form or another" covers a lot of territory.

It sure does. And like I said, I don't deny the possibility that OS X  
might run on non-Apple hardware someday, but I don't see that day  
coming soon. just my opinion, I actually hope I'm wrong (even though  
I would never go back to non-Apple hardware regardless - I love the  
fact that Apple controls both the hardware and the OS, makes things  
so much nicer).




Brian
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Logic Audio Pro 7.1
PowerMac G4 933MHz
OS X 10.4.2
1 GB RAM
MOTU 828mkII
   - driver v1.2.5
   - CueMix v1.5
   - firmware 1.0.1
   - bootloader 1.0.1

Brian Pylant wrote:

>It sure does. And like I said, I don't deny the possibility that OS X  
>might run on non-Apple hardware someday, but I don't see that day  
>coming soon. just my opinion, I actually hope I'm wrong (even though  
>I would never go back to non-Apple hardware regardless - I love the  
>fact that Apple controls both the hardware and the OS, makes things  
>so much nicer).
>  
>
For whom?
;-)

Seriously - the idea that Apple "controls" the hardware needs to be 
taken outside and given a decent burial.

Apple are in the process of completing a move to the industry standard 
architecture which is determined by the bigger players - Intel, AMD, 
Nvidia and the Dramurai. Apple is going to be running a distribution 
network, speccing cases to be made by third parties and supplying OS 
software and a few content creation apps that they have bought.

> Seriously - the idea that Apple "controls" the hardware needs to be
> taken outside and given a decent burial.
>
> Apple are in the process of completing a move to the industry standard
> architecture which is determined by the bigger players - Intel, AMD,
> Nvidia and the Dramurai. Apple is going to be running a distribution
> network, speccing cases to be made by third parties and supplying OS
> software and a few content creation apps that they have bought.

No argument. But any machine that bear the name "Macintosh" is going  
to be comprised of components both chosen and tested by Apple for  
compatibility and compliance. Which is something that Microsoft has  
yet to provide as they are fundamentally a software-only company (all  
mice and other doodads notwithstanding) -- I've long said that the  
best thing they could do for Windows (which is not inherently a bad  
OS, it's just often run on bad systems) is to start manufacturing  
systems as Apple does.





Brian
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Logic Audio Pro 7.1
PowerMac G4 933MHz
OS X 10.4.2
1 GB RAM
MOTU 828mkII
   - driver v1.2.5
   - CueMix v1.5
   - firmware 1.0.1
   - bootloader 1.0.1