What if Apple produced OSX for solely for Hammer?

[Martin]

Of course it IS speculation, but its interesting one at that.

And of course, what makes it even more interesting is that its possible!


what do you think?

 

[no0b]

Read a discussion/argument about it here
http://geek.com/news/geeknews/2002apr/bch20020405011075.htm

 

[no0b]

But I dont think M$ wont like it if apple becomes a competor due to AMD's product. Since we need M$ to make an OS that can support that x86-64 stuff its not exactly a win win situation.

 

[LaBang]

IF you think that OS X is a superior OS why don't you just go ahead and pay more for their hardware? Apple won't port their OS because apple is a hardware company.

 

[Ameesh]

<< But I dont think M$ wont like it if apple becomes a competor due to AMD's product. Since we need M$ to make an OS that can support that x86-64 stuff its not exactly a win win situation. >>



Ms does make 64 bit OS, WinXP Pro came out that works on IA64 and .NET Server has a 64 bit edition.

 

[yakko]

I wouold like to see OS-X ported to the new Hammer CPUs.

 

[notfred]

What are they going to do, recall all the copies they already shipped for the G3 and G4, design a new AMD based machine, and then rerelease OSX so that it only runs on this brand new machine? Oh, and then all the software released for OSX would have to be recompiled and rereleased for the new cpu.



<< What if Apple produced OSX for solely for Hammer? >>

 

[jhu]

if only motorola would sell their chip division to apple

 

[Valinos]

If I could run OSX on superior hardware (read AMD, GF4, DDR, etc) I'd go for it. Most of the games I play use id's engines which are well known for their mac and linux support. And for anything else, I'd just do a dual boot. OSX and Win2k. The best of both worlds.

 

[jhu]

i wish apple would port osx to the ultrasparc. i'd love to run osx on my sunblade 10000 but, alas, i'm stuck with gnome on solaris