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Unit 5302 · 08-26-2008, 12:31 AM

Apple is unlikely to release it's OS series to the mainstream personal computer market. It's difficult not to really call a Mac a PC considering it uses:

The same processor
The same CD/DVD drives
The same hard drives
The same video cards
The same RAM
The same power supplies
The same sound cards

The only thing different between most mainstream PC's and the Mac is the motherboard, and of course, the operating system.

Since Apple makes money on the actual hardware and computer itself, releasing the software directly to the mainstream PC market would mean Apple would also have to cut it's profits to remain competitive. Otherwise, why not just buy a PC and install OSX on it?

Well, that's what many people are already doing by building a "hackintosh." With fairly good success rates, too.

I disagree with OSX being significantly more stable than Windows XP, but it's certainly a mile ahead of Vista (piece of garbage). Microsoft is losing marketshare to a suddenly revamped offering of Linux based products such as GoS (a google enhanced Ubutu Linux), Ubutu, and other low cost Linux solutions that have a lot of enhanced drivers and compatibiltiy programmed in. I thought Linux was going to be dead with the release of Longhorn, but by the time Longhorn morphed into the bloated, incompatable nightmare which is Vista, it was obvious that the door was once again wide open to competitors. Maybe that's why Microsoft is feverishly working to replace Vista with Windows 7, currently slated for next year already?

08-26-2008, 12:31 AM	#11
Unit 5302 Registered Member Join Date: May 1999 Posts: 5,246	Re: Mac vs. PC, what do you use? Apple is unlikely to release it's OS series to the mainstream personal computer market. It's difficult not to really call a Mac a PC considering it uses: The same processor The same CD/DVD drives The same hard drives The same video cards The same RAM The same power supplies The same sound cards The only thing different between most mainstream PC's and the Mac is the motherboard, and of course, the operating system. Since Apple makes money on the actual hardware and computer itself, releasing the software directly to the mainstream PC market would mean Apple would also have to cut it's profits to remain competitive. Otherwise, why not just buy a PC and install OSX on it? Well, that's what many people are already doing by building a "hackintosh." With fairly good success rates, too. I disagree with OSX being significantly more stable than Windows XP, but it's certainly a mile ahead of Vista (piece of garbage). Microsoft is losing marketshare to a suddenly revamped offering of Linux based products such as GoS (a google enhanced Ubutu Linux), Ubutu, and other low cost Linux solutions that have a lot of enhanced drivers and compatibiltiy programmed in. I thought Linux was going to be dead with the release of Longhorn, but by the time Longhorn morphed into the bloated, incompatable nightmare which is Vista, it was obvious that the door was once again wide open to competitors. Maybe that's why Microsoft is feverishly working to replace Vista with Windows 7, currently slated for next year already?