| Re: Dual Core Apple "MacBook", and RSI's Mac Intel plans [message #46990 is a reply to message #46940] |
Thu, 12 January 2006 10:19   |
JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:18:35 -0500, Matt Feinstein wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2006 08:07:11 -0800, phaccount@nycap.rr.com wrote:
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>> I am thinking that Apple on Intel may be a demise of Linux.
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>> I for one, a linux and wintel user, would love to switch to Apple and
>> have the best of linux and the decent of mictel (microsoft+intel). If
>> the hardware price comes down some, a part of the linux folks may
>> switch to apple. Apple may then see a surge in computer, scientific
>> and engineering applications that partially drove linux forward.
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> The killer option is a Windows/OS X dual-boot workstation, but it
> looks like that won't happen for a while. The various items I've read
> are somewhat unclear, but, apparently, dual-boot XP+OS X is not a
> possibility with the new macs because of BIOS/firmware issues. However
> Vista+OS X will be possible and, IMO, poses a major threat to linux.
I'd say OSX/Linux dual boot poses a threat to Windows ;). And I guarantee
we'll see Linux on these boxes faster than Windows...
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