As Apple continues to chip away at the PC market and the dominance of Windows we are seeing more people being willing to give the Mac a good honest try. One of the biggest holdbacks; right or wrong, is the perception that Mac’s cost more than a comparable PC running Windows. So many people have suggested; myself among them, that Apple would see a greater uptake of their products if it was possible to run OS X on the PC platform.
I have written about this idea before and recently we have even seen a company in the US begin to market PCs with OS X installed on it. In the past there have been articles posted about community driven efforts to bring OS X to the PC but today one of the leading tech online publications ZDNet has published a multi-page in-depth article - well actually it is more of a how-to on installing some differently available PC compatible OS X distributions.
As Kai Schmerer of ZDNet Germany said in the post
But there is another way: for some time, various different images of Mac OS X have been available on the internet that have been modified to circumvent its tight coupling to Apple’s hardware. These allow the operating system to be installed on a standard PC. To date, Apple has taken no action against such activities, which perhaps indicates that the ‘buzz’ around its OS is not entirely unwelcome.
This is the interesting point about the whole thing as well. Apple is well known for siccing its lawyers on just about anyone who even breathes a word about Apple without permission and yet here we have a company marketing PCs with OS X installed and more articles being posted on how to do it. Yet not a word or any cease and desists orders have been seen or reported.
So one has to really wonder if in fact Apple is silently condoning these moves to bring its OS X platform to a wider audience.
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I don't see anything that special about OS X either. Vista runs like a dream on my new Asus laptop, I can play mi favorite games, and I didn't have to pay a special premium just because I'm "thinking different"
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I have been a Windows user from the early days of DOS yet lately I have delved into Linux (Ubuntu) and find myself booting more often into it than WIndows, maybe it is a sign, when a community drive OS is faster and more stable than the mainstream alternative, that is is time for the mainstream to pull their heads in and have a long hard stare at their navel for a while.
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