ER, I think you need to do the math. In a business environment, or any collaboration effort, 1+1 does not equal 2. The strength comes from people working together. Linux is the answer to forming a collaboration that everyone can work together and create something really positive. No boundaries exist, except those found in the minds of them who are to blind to see. Not everything in this world has to be for profit. If you could by a computer and have the hardware be the only expense, why would you not do so?
Kib
On 6/7/05 6:15 PM, "ER" <evad@dodgeit.com> wrote:
> > "Daren Halfpenny" <dhalfpenny@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message > news:BECBED71.46D04%dhalfpenny@blueyonder.co.uk... >> in article KKgpe.44113$6g3.30776@tornado.texas.rr.com, Will-Lee-Cue at >> n5wrx@stx.rr.com wrote on 7/6/05 1:50 pm: >> >>> Why run Windows programs on a Mac to start with? >>> If you need to run Windows programs ... buy a PC. >>> Problem solved. >>> >>> And before you get off on an Mac ver PC rant look at the June issue of >>> Mac >>> Format magazine. >>> "5O killer bugs squashed" reads the cover. >>> And those are just the big ones. >>> >>> William Lee >>> >>> >>> "Loadnlock" <loadnlock@nospam.net> wrote in message >>> news:T76dnVwmCYgtszjfRVn-oA@comcast.com... >>>> Not Me wrote: >>>> >>>>> Apple will be making Macs with Intel chips. >>>>> >>>>> <http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20050606corp.htm> >>>> >>>> Yeah! We won't have to bother pirating Microsoft Virtual PC anymore!! >>> >>> >> This is about more than just x86 processors, I'm sure. I bet that Intel >> have >> something big up their sleeves sometime soon and Apple are more than aware >> of that. I just hope that the same systems aren't open to Microsoft as if >> the Mac platform is to stand a chance in the future, it has to be >> DIFFERENT >> to the common PC infrastructure a-la Power PC processors opposed to >> everything else out there in PC-dom. As Mac OS X is processor independent, >> the shift to a new processor is going to be far easier than it will be for >> windows so the Mac OS is always going to be the superior choice. By the >> time >> Longhorn is out, Leopard will be available or just around the corner which >> will p*ss all over it anyway! >> >> However, Apple NEED big speed bumps, especially as far as the G4 is >> concerned - those chips are easily 5 years old by now and these are what >> is >> being offered in the top of the line Pro-laptop Powerbooks - a travesty >> really! Sadly it means we'll never get to see the G5 Powerbook, something >> I >> was actually quite looking forward to seeing, even if I wasn't in the >> running for one. >> >> Also, I can't see the new Macs, whether they run on Intel or not, running >> Windows straight out of the box - I may be wrong but what I can be certain >> of is that Apple will not allow X to run on a PC unless a PC-optimised >> version is marketed separately - the new Macs will be sufficiently >> different >> in the proprietary hardware to ensure that X cannot be transferred >> directly >> from an Intel Mac to an Intel PC. >> >> What bothers me more than anything though, is that we're going to see the >> poxy "intel Inside" logo plastered all over these machines and at the end >> of >> their ads which infuriates me enough already when I hear it... >> >> > Now Unix has never been a big player on Intel processors so it is poorly > optimized. BSD was hacked out of early Unix derivatives. Like the old > saying: Too many cooks spoil the soup. Unix can't compete with a modern well > designed OS optimized for a processor type. Apple is doomed unless it gets > off Unix. Unix and Linux are much the same and you get what you pay for. > > ER > > >
