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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:25 AM PT Posted by Harry McCracken
Now on Sale: Macs With OS X and Windows
The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports that an Apple reseller called ExperCom is selling MacBook Pro notebooks with Boot Camp and Windows XP installed--which means that you can buy (for $2029) a computer that runs Windows and Mac OS natively out of the box. There have been multiple ways over the years to run PC apps on a Mac, but I'm not sure if you've ever simply been able to buy a dual-platform computer that's ready to go.This is in no way the monumentous moment that it would be if Apple started preloading Windows (it's possible that day will come, but not soon, I'd guess). And ExperCom cheerfully denies responsibility for Windows-related support issues that may come up ("hey, we're Mac people"). Still, it's worthy of note--and I'm really curious whether ExperCom will sell a boatload of these WinMacs or whether it's a (pretty clever) publicity stunt.
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Unless this is like a"trial baloon" that Apple is party to, I'll bet that Apple will rap ExperCom's knuckles.
I would like to see Apple on a Windows computer, that would be better.
I feel the same way.....i'd like be to be able to run OSX on a PC. I understand why that won't happen; there would no longer be ANY reason to buy Macs aside from "they look cool".
It's a shame, though. I'd like to use OSX from time to time. But i'm not gonna drop the money on an uber-exepensive Mac for the "privelage" of using their OS.....which I would only use on occasion, anyway.
for some reason i feel like mac is selling out.
Why don't you folks who want to see "Apple on a Windows" computer just buy one of the MacBooks and partition out the WinXP to 60 Gb (vs 10 or 15 Gb). You'd have a kicking laptop that could run OSX if you wanted the "privilege" of doing so. You'd get the best laptop hardware available and the opportunity to run the best OS available (Apple and OSX, repectively) anytime you'd like.
"Why don't you folks who want to see "Apple on a Windows" computer just buy one of the MacBooks and partition out the WinXP to 60 Gb (vs 10 or 15 Gb). You'd have a kicking laptop that could run OSX if you wanted the "privilege" of doing so. You'd get the best laptop hardware available and the opportunity to run the best OS available (Apple and OSX, respectively) anytime you'd like."
The point of "Apple on "windows"" is probably more accurately "apple on PC". People want to run OS X on their PC hardware, that they already own. (At least that's what I would want).
It would obviously be hard for Apple because there would be hardware support problems. Right now Apple has to support mainly just their own hardware.
yeah, so apple on windows is possible. i have personally seen it done. google is a wonderful thing folks.
just to clarify, by that i meant, running os x on a pc computer is possible. i have seen it personally in action.
Even if you could run OS X on a PC's (Actually, you can, now, albeit unofficially), people will still buy mac's because they look cool.
How do I know? Because people buy iPods. There are other mp3 players on the market with more features. But iPods look the coolests. That is why Apple could, if they wanted to, sell OS X for generic PC's.
I would love to run MAC OS on my PC.
Apples are just too expensive.
Feature for feature Apples are not more expensive, especially given the quality of the components.
Ziggles: I don't want Mac hardware. That's....the whole point of me wanting to run OSX on a PC. I don't want to spend ludicrous amounts of money where I don't have to, as well as not being able to quite get the hardware I actually want, like a good graphics card and such.
How is apple hardware better than hardware on any other system? I never understood this. I have played games on both systems and graphics on XP blow away the mac that cost three times as much.
It doesn't. the G5 is laughable. It really sucks.
The New Intels are kinda underpowered (and only 32 bit).
Other peripherals are almost similar, like graphics cards and sound cards.
Yes I have to say that I find Macs more expensive than PCs and would rather just be able to buy OSX on a disk and load it on my $300 Dell, kinda like I just want to rip the engine out of the latest 911 Porsche turbo and put it in my little Toyota sub compac to make my Toyota run better without the expense ;) (Yeh Right!)
Not everyone is out there buying dirt cheap hardware or Dell PC's. Mac hardware is good but that doesn't make it the absolute best. For the price I would pay for a good Mac I could build an even more powerful PC. Personally I could never really find a use for my Mac and thus sold it. Everything I wanted to do, I could do on my PC. If I were to run bootcamp on a Mac I would just end up using Windows all the time. In short, when you're primarily a PC user (Linux, Windows, et cetera) having MAC OS on a PC is far more practical than buying another computer.