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canucklehead

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Ordered a MacBook this afternoon and waiting for two test iMacs for early next week delivery.
 

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The Mac/Windows debate is shifting to:

Windows Mobile/Blackberry debate. Windows will win like always.
 

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By ALLISON LINN

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Posted at 9:12 AM EST

Associated Press

SEATTLE — Apple Computer Inc. won't thwart users from loading Microsoft's Windows operating system onto its new Intel-based Macintosh computers — but don't expect Apple to start offering a Mac running Windows.

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide product marketing, said in an interview Tuesday that the company won't sell or support Windows itself, but also hasn't done anything to preclude people from loading Windows onto the machines themselves.

"That's fine with us. We don't mind," Schiller said. "If there are people who love our hardware but are forced to put up with a Windows world, then that's OK."

Schiller made the comments at Tuesday's Macworld Expo, where Microsoft also said it had signed a five-year pact with Apple to develop versions of Office for Macs and announced plans to release a version of Office that will be compatible with Apple's new Intel-based computers.

Macs currently run Apple's own proprietary operating system, which competes with Windows. However, since Windows is much more dominant, Mac users don't necessarily have access to many software programs written only for Windows.

Apple on Tuesday unveiled its first computers using Intel chips, which power most PCs using Windows.

The switch could technically and theoretically allow a person to load Windows onto a Mac computer, although the user would require some technical expertise to pull it off. That would allow a person to run both Microsoft and Apple's operating systems on the same Apple machine.

"Any new machines that are on the market that run Windows are great," said Scott Erickson, director of product management and marketing for Microsoft's Mac business unit.

Erickson said it was too early to say how Microsoft might take advantage of an ability to run Windows on Macs, saying only that it could give Mac users the potential to run Windows-based applications they previously couldn't.

Still, Erickson said Microsoft remains committed to offering a version of its Office business software for Macintosh computers.

Microsoft, based in Redmond, wouldn't say when the new version of Office for Macs will be released or what it will cost. Erickson said the company last released a version of its Office business software for Macs in May of 2004, and Microsoft generally releases updates every two to three years.

Erickson said the five-year deal, in which no money changed hands, should help quell customer concerns that Microsoft will stop developing software for its rival.

"What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, `Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?'" Erickson said.

This is the second time Microsoft and Apple have signed pledges to work together, although Microsoft has developed software for Macintoshes for more than two decades.
 

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Pics of Apple's booth at the MacWorld Expo here

I was at the show and it was very impressive. The new MacBook is certainly a nice looking machine - not that I would expect anything less from Apple. It was also interesting to see how the photographic industry is really embracing the Mac now. Digital photos, editing etc have always lived happily on the Mac platform but I think the major players (Nikon, Canon) are really starting to gear up in a big way on the Mac platform.
 

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New iMacs arrived today ........ The Intel based OS feels and acts just like the Old PPC OS.
Final Cut for the PPC feels as fast as it does on any other G5 and that is running in Rosetta.
I had to make a decision this year whether to go to Mac World or the Developers Conference and made the June in San Fran choice.
 

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Rumor has it if you 'seach' the right torent sites or newsgroups you can pick whole copies of the Mac OS X that been modified to run on PCs.

I'm not into Mac yet but a buddy told me he has already done this.
His PC is partitioned and runs both windows XP and the Mac OS X.
 

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I remember hearing about an X-86 Mac a while back but I thought for sure that they would've gone with the Athlon-64. I figured that Apple fans would be less resistive to an AMD based Mac than an Intel based Mac.

I'll bet it's a very cool system.
 
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