Re: The Microsoft stranglehold on its users....

Straydog wrote:

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Where SCO ran out of money (and public sympathy), MS could become the new Roman Emperors. While Steve Jobs may or may not have thought about it, it could be another unpublicised reason for going to x86 architecture (to make it possible to run MS OS and aps), as well as head off in a new direction away from computers altogether for the benefit of Apple's survival.

There was still a technical reason for that. The story I heard was that the PowerPC processors that Apple wanted for, I believe, a line of laptops wasn't going to be available within a reasonable time. The Intel chips, however, were and they didn't produce as much heat.

They were much cheaper, too. but, it would be nothing for Macs to run Vista now.

They can using an emulator called Boot Camp, though DOS/Windows emulators for Macs have been around for years.

My G4 Mac started malfunctioning a few weeks ago, so I quickly got myself an iMac to keep going while the other machine was in the repair shop. I find the latter, which uses a dual-core Intel chip, a bit slow at executing certain commands but quick for others.

I called Apple about the G4 unit and was told that it's considered a "vintage" machine, even though that product line was first introduced about six or seven years ago. Maybe it's because it used PowerPC processors.

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