[rescue] Powermac G5 V.s. MacBook

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Wed Dec 10 10:05:54 CST 2008


Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:27:43PM -0500, Christopher Purdy wrote:
> [...]
>> Now I'll really throw gas on the fire - What if apple releases 10.6 and
>> opens it up to run on non -apple hardware?
> 
> Why would they do that? The last time they allowed MacOS to run on non-Apple
> hardware, it nearly bankrupted the company.

The only thing that would make any sense would be to port OSX Server to
higher end hardware, like POWER (unlikely) or SPARC. That only if Apple
decides to actually try to play in the "enterprise" space which they
have shown themselves woefully under-equipped in doing.

--Patrick



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