Windows XP on Mac,Its official now.

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I agree. Why not just license the technology to Dell and let them build and sell them and just get out of the box business?

John
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Out of the box business? In case you are wondering, AAPL is not a software company but a hardware company. DELL is not even close to being a hardware company in the same league as HPQ and AAPL. All DELL does is take existing components, sticks a DELL label on it, puts them together and resells them at extremely low prices - kinda like WMT. It is a good trick because all they are selling is a service to those that don't know any better. AAPL and HPQ manufacture their own hardware to their own specs and are true hardware companies, although everyone outsources the actual components these days.

I see a future though where there is going to be a surprise hardware maker, and few guess who it will be.

nitro
 
Oh man. Like I said, keep writing memos and reading books like "Clusters for Managers" because you don't know what you are talking about.

I have no problems with all the rest of the crap that you claim because it means nothing to me. But when you say that "most geeks wouldn't be seen anywhere near a mac" that was when the line was drawn because you are not even wrong.

nitro
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That's really cool! :cool: I'm happy that she is working with computers. Sadly for you though, that has no impact on whether or not I know computers. Maybe she'll keep that gleam in your eye dreaming about Apple's prospects in main stream computing services as it relates to reality and existing product bases. I'll factually tell you that the dream has very little bearing on whether or not the main corporate environs will get the MAC OS installed any time soon. There is possibly some hope for it yet though. Time will tell!

The issue, for me, falls as to am I going to endorse adding another OS into the corporate domains that I work on. As an outside consultant charged with keeping my clients efficiently operating, I know where I'm looking. The current answer - Not!!! I'll continue to poopoo the matter and make sure that the current UNIX/Novell/Windows domains remain as they are. Some how I feel that my direct corporate involvement will have more impact (currently) than your wishes and your daughter's talents.

I do not work in the domain of learning the computer OS's. It is my job to keep the geeks in line and working within the corporate constraints of budgets and reality. I hear their wishes daily and I do understand their desires. My foray is in hardware and project management.

It is my job to translate geek talk into corporate speak and vice versa. I spend days on end bring the fantasies of both sides into line with what is doable. Most of the time the two never meet naturally. They (both sides) like you, want to do everything new that can be done just because it's the next thing in the line.

Some commercial/advertisement somewhere has caused another hard on for change. And once again we have to head out to the bleeding edge of technology to appease your thirst for ever more. Too much like right to wait for the testing and patches to be developed, you need it ~ YESTERDAY FOR TOMORROW! Even when you aren't beginning to tax the capabilities of what you have currently, YOU JUST GOTTA' HAVE IT!!!

I do not fashion myself a geek. The folks who know that I know how to talk to them are roundly reminded, by me, that I am not. But I do have the patience, understanding and vision to communicate with both sides quite effectively. And I am a damn good mediator.

At the upcoming IT conference that I'll be attending I, and many more like me, will again talk of integrated services without much discussion of the MAC's being integral. But, for you and your Elite Trader discussions, keep hope alive! :)
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Oh man. Like I said, keep writing memos and reading books like "Clusters for Managers" because you don't know what you are talking about.

I have no problems with all the rest of the crap that you claim because it means nothing to me. But when you say that "most geeks wouldn't be seen anywhere near a mac" that was when the line was drawn because you are not even wrong.

nitro
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Forgive me if I am also ignorant and far from wrong, but what does, Vista being a 64 bit processor system, mean, if anything?

Is Mac a 32 bit? Will there be incompatabilities? Is the Mac life limited to the Vista release?
 
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Forgive me if I am also ignorant and far from wrong, but what does, Vista being a 64 bit processor system, mean, if anything?

Is Mac a 32 bit? Will there be incompatabilities? Is the Mac life limited to the Vista release?
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1) 64-bit support is not new to Vista - it is supported by several MSFT OSs now.

2) There are many macs. There are the new INTC based macs, and then there are the G4s and the G5s (I am not going further back than that.) The new mac INTC based machines are 32-bits. The G4s are 32 bits. All machines that are G5 based are 64 bits. Mac OS X is a 64-bit OS. To anyone using a desktop today for what 99.999999% of all users use computers for, 64-bit is meaningless. That may not be true tomorrow, but when that matters all modern machines and all OS makers are well ready for 64 bits.

nitro
 
Hope someone can comment on this. I read through the thread and near the top, there was this
Quote from forrest:
... I think anyone can see the value in ...enjoy[ing] all the great features of Mac OSX but still be able to use windows when they HAVE to.
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I am not at all sure what these 'great features of the Mac OSX' are. Here is the only comment I saw that would describe them, at least, the only one that I could understand (I am not sure what *nix is).
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...the risk of malware of various types which is both costly to guard against and potentially very costly in terms of down time. Another might be the 'standardization' of Apple hardware. IT support not having to deal with the myriad combinations of video cards and drivers and whatever, that happens in the PC world.
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Can anyone link me to or provide a 'top 5' list of the features that make OSX so great, both for a home user and for an enterprise application? All I know is that in the recording studio, Mac is the platform of choice, and it used to be that way for high-end graphics apps (Silicon Graphics?).

Hope this isn't too off topic - I think it impacts upon the decision for long time Windoze users to switch to Mac, especially for traders who are not part of a corporation.
 
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I have no problems with all the rest of the crap that you claim because it means nothing to me.
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Cool, then we've achieved parity then because that's exactly how I felt about your comments! :)
 
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