Tue 15 Apr 2008
When Jobs made his decision several years back to cut IBM and go with Intel processors, first thing people thought of was running Windows on Mac and vise versa. Jobs still didn’t want to port his beloved OS to the PC. He must’ve knew geeks are gonna get Windows working on Mac. But did he see this OpenMac coming? For $400 you can get your hands on the Mac clone PC. Another $155 for the Leopard installation using an emulator. A move that definitely won’t be raising smile on Jobs face.
Jobs has always believed in locking his OS to his hardware. If someone wants the OS, he must buy the whole package. He saw it as a way for more control and ability to deliver better product, and ofcourse make more money. This is not the first clone of Macs however. Back in 1997, Jobs returned to Apple and wiped out all Mac cloners at the time. A good point that was raised however on CNet Buzz Out Loud is, do Apple fans really want their Leopard running on an ugly looking PC, or do they want the Apple packaging and branding. I believe not.
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April 15th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
But why would people want to run Mac software on PC hardware?
April 15th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Kroms: Same reason why they run Windows on Mac hardware. Portability. Also, it means more options and cheaper hardware.
Also, it’s a geeky challenge :)
April 15th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Geeky challenge indeed.
Apple were trying to make it illegal to install OS X on non-Apple computers but they were turned down. However, I think they are able to make it less stable on PCs and I’m sure that’s what they did already. I have experienced Leopard’s stability over PPC in comparison with Intel Macs and it tends to crash more often on PPC so there’s no need to talk about its stability on PC.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Oh and that reminds me of this. ;)
April 16th, 2008 at 9:14 am
MacaholiQ8: Hahaha… It’s not dated 1st April, so I assume it’s true :)