cbd

Apple and Windows

Apple allows Windows dual booting. Now, the real question is, will they support MacOS on commodity PC hardware?

Posted Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 at 1:25 pm under Nerdliness. Follow responses with the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.

erich writes:
April 5th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
Actually, I think the first question is, will it be possible to triple-boot (OS X, Windows, Linux) without using some dangerous hack?
cbd writes:
April 6th, 2006 at 6:37 am
I dunno. At some point it becomes less of a pain in the ass to shell out a couple hundred bucks for a second computer. At least with Linux, a cheapie or castoff is a viable machine. Though XP and MacOS would probably drag ass on my five year old workstation…
jeff writes:
April 6th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
uh…why not just buy a mac?
erich writes:
April 7th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
With whose money?
jeff writes:
April 7th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
they got street corners in VA? GO TO WORK!
cbd writes:
April 7th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Entry level iMac = $1500
Entry level Dell PC = $1000

In other words, three Dells for the price of two iMacs. ‘Nuff said.
Erich writes:
April 7th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Perfectly usable HP laptop with rebates from BestBuy or Circuit City = around $700. When and if OSX runs on commodity hardware, I’ll switch immediately. Otherwise, I’ll continue to run Linux on cheap-ass computers.