Comments on: Apple drops the bomb: Run Windows on your Mac Hardware http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2006/04/05/apple-drops-the-bomb-run-windows-on-your-mac-hardware/ Blogging about BYU Sports, cool stuff, and my personal life... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:20:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ryan Gardner http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2006/04/05/apple-drops-the-bomb-run-windows-on-your-mac-hardware/#comment-835 Ryan Gardner Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:51:13 +0000 http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2006/04/05/apple-drops-the-bomb-run-windows-on-your-mac-hardware/#comment-835 Apple now must work hard to make their OS easy to develop on, more user friendly, and faster than Windows. Otherwise, this may kill development for OS X... I think they are betting that once people get OS X and XP installed on the same machine, they will slowly realize that OS X is a much nicer operating system, and will just ditch XP unless they absolutely have to use it. Of course - this will likely stunt development on OS X for gaming... ports :( If Apple had any decent Intel boxes out, it would be tempting to buy one for gaming... but until they get a pro machine that is better than the G5 tower, it's not really a big deal... I am still sad that Apple is leavin the Power architecture - because from a geek/nerd standpoint it is a superior instruction-set architecture, and has cool features that Intel only dreams about... And I'm also sad that they went with Intel instead of AMD - but they obviously had their reasons. Apple now must work hard to make their OS easy to develop on, more user friendly, and faster than Windows. Otherwise, this may kill development for OS X…

I think they are betting that once people get OS X and XP installed on the same machine, they will slowly realize that OS X is a much nicer operating system, and will just ditch XP unless they absolutely have to use it.

Of course - this will likely stunt development on OS X for gaming… ports :(

If Apple had any decent Intel boxes out, it would be tempting to buy one for gaming… but until they get a pro machine that is better than the G5 tower, it’s not really a big deal…

I am still sad that Apple is leavin the Power architecture - because from a geek/nerd standpoint it is a superior instruction-set architecture, and has cool features that Intel only dreams about… And I’m also sad that they went with Intel instead of AMD - but they obviously had their reasons.

]]> By: Kent http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2006/04/05/apple-drops-the-bomb-run-windows-on-your-mac-hardware/#comment-834 Kent Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:43:22 +0000 http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2006/04/05/apple-drops-the-bomb-run-windows-on-your-mac-hardware/#comment-834 WOW so much for their not ever going to do it... that is really cool WOW

so much for their not ever going to do it…

that is really cool

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