[rescue] From Macintouch

[Andrew Weiss]

On Jun 9, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:45:18AM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 01:22:26PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
>>>
>>>> Will it run on generic hardware, or will it need an actual Mac with
>>>> things like OpenFirmware?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, we will know shortly after the developers start getting their
>>> $999 P4 dev kits.
>>>
>>
>> Those $999 P4 Dev kits are "on loan" to developers, Apple says  
>> they want
>> them back at the end of 2006 (IIRC).
>>
>
> They are probably just saying that in order to avoid people buying
> them and selling them to others... what would Apple do with a bunch of
> old prototype machines?

They are probably the only OS X running Intel boxes that won't have  
DRM... they probably would also give away a lot of insight on how to  
hack the new boxes the moment they came out.

<Apple>Pweeze don't hang on to these... crap!...errr..give em back  
"They are not a product."</Apple>

Andrew

"I BET WITH SOME LIQUID COOLING YOU COULD GET TO 500MHZ! OMGWTFBBQ!"  
-- Bill Bradford joking about what to do with Cyclequads