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By letting this trickle into the hands of the kids and computer enthusiasts, it is exposing them to the OS in a very Linux like way. Lets face the average computer user does not have those skills. It will only be the computer “geeks” who even know how to find it, download it, and how to install it. Why buy a Dell when Apple ‘Macintel’ computers will run both Mac OS X and Windows? – June 08, 2005

Will developers stop writing Mac applications if Apple ‘Macintel’ computers can run Windows? – June 08, 2005 Twin Mac website debuts, dedicated to dual booting Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X and Windows – June 10, 2005Ĭringley: Apple and Intel to merge Steve Jobs finally beats Bill Gates – June 09, 2005įortune: Apple’s switch to Intel processors to accelerate Windows users switching to Mac OS X – June 09, 2005 Intel-based Macs running both Mac OS X and Windows will be good for Apple – June 10, 2005 Is Apple setting up the ultimate “Switcher” campaign by preparing to let Mac OS X speak for itself? – June 10, 2005 It’s a try-before-you-buy deal,” Harrell writes. Apple’s giving their potential future customers a free taste, that’s what they’re doing. As a result, Apple will give thousands, possibly millions, of people a taste of Mac OS X running full speed on their own PCs. Most of them will be able to install it on their own computers and run it and the full suite of iLife ’05 applications at full speed, and run most existing Mac software in translation. “According to reports, Apple’s bundled iLife applications, major selling points for the Mac operating system, are already Intel-native and run at full speed… Given Apple’s experiences with software piracy, particularly the rampant software piracy that spread developer builds of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger all over the Internet this past spring, Apple’s management from the top down knows full well that this developer preview will be in the hands of every kid with a cable modem within days of its release. This is the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move I’ve ever seen.” (Update: A reader who for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous just demonstrated to me that the software is, in fact, already available on Internet software piracy sites.) If I can think through this stuff, Apple’s management can think through this stuff. “The Intel-based Power Macintoshes that Apple is showing at their developer conference are based on an Intel motherboard, generic Intel graphics and off-the-shelf Pentium 4 CPUs… I estimate that we’re down to a matter of hours before Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hardware is available for download on Internet software piracy sites and peer-to-peer piracy networks.

“There is nothing at all that prevents the version of Mac OS X that runs on the developer transition machines from running on any PC with compatible components,” Jeff Harrell writes for The Shape of Days.