From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Rich wrote:
>    In addition to whining about something you claim not to care about,
> why have you extended this to droning on about the mac?  You should
> probably start a new thread if you are going to whine about the mac on a
> topic you claim to not care about.
>
ROFLMAO. YOU retitled this thread. You are the one whining & droning.

Your diversion & spin is very amusing in a kinda 13 year old learning
to debate kind of way.

I was talking about the Mac :

"Geo wrote:


>>
>
>>>>No but I think dual boot will be key now hdd'es are so
cheap for so much
>>>> space.
>
>>
>>
>> Why? What is it you can't do on a Mac that you need XP for?
>>


There may be the odd thing.

I wonder if Mac will use the Linux NTFS stuff so it can read & write
NTFS partitions.

That would skew things coz MS won't put foreign fs abilities into XP/Vista."


Until you retitled the thread it was:

"Cringely's prediction #3"

Which was:

"3) But Apple WILL make some inroads against Microsoft. The new Intel
Macs will run Windows XP unofficially, and Apple Support acknowledges that
they are only days from running XP officially, too. So Apple finally has a
solid argument why Windows-centric companies and homes should consider
trying a Mac. The best case, though, says that Apple sells an additional
million units, which aren't enough for Steve Jobs, so I see him going into
a kind of stealth competition with Microsoft.

Here's how I believe it will work. Apple won't offer versions of OS X for
generic Intel hardware because the drivers and the support obligation would
be too huge. But just as you can buy a shrink-wrapped copy of 10.4 for your
iMac, they'll gladly sell you a shrink-wrapped Intel version intended for
an Intel Mac, but of course YOU CAN PUT IT ON ANY MACHINE YOU LIKE. The key
here is to offer no guarantees and only limited support, patterned on the
kind you get for most Open Source packages -- a web site, forums, download
section. and a wiki. Apple will help users help themselves. With two to
three engineers and some outreach to hackers and hardware makers, Apple
could put together an unofficial program that could easily attract two to
three million Windows users per year to migrate their old machines to the
new OS. Imagine the profit margins of three engineers effectively
generating
$300-plus million per year in sales.
"

Arguing with you it like shooting at a beached whale.

Adam

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