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ZebCarnell wrote:There were people filling ISOs with txt files a while back that some people were getting sucked into.
Nigel wrote:Look at it this way... one of the reasons that OS X is so slick is that it runs on a limited set of hardware that Apple can thoroughly test, support and optimise it for. I'll bet it would be no better (and probably worse) than Linux at running on the average home-built box of bits.
It would be like putting the seats, steering wheel & dashboard from a Lexus into an old Toyota Corolla & expecting it to drive like the Lexus.
emyr42 wrote:I could take the engine from a 405 T16 and put it in a 405 1.9D, as they're both based on the same thing.
pins wrote:what I don't get about apples move to intel is that the main reason given *that I'm aware of* was because IBM wouldn't supply them with ppc chips affordably at the volumes they were buying.
Blåtann wrote:Anyway, unlike Win$, Mac Os X is based on kernels written pretty much indepndently of cpu type, they CAN do a cpu switch and they have the experience to do it (read: 68k to ppc, a seamless transition).
They do a cpu transition because they can.
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