From: RobertB 

In article ,
 Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge">
 wrote:

> Just out of interest...
>
> Imagine OSX was released to run on other machines (esp other laptops).
>
> How many takers & what sort of major PC laptop comps would preload with it?
>
> We've now all seen vista (it reminds me in a striking way of....not of
> OSX but of KDE.....but I'll let that slide).
>
> Not much woohooing from the masses.
>
> A laptop has a nice sealed existence with known hardware & thus drivers etc.

What about firmware? BIOS? Type of RAM?

>
> everything else is external over usb etc any way....so change from a mac.
>
> I reckon Apple should put in some serious effort to making OpenOffice
> run well on it.

OpenOffice and NeoOffice both run on OS X.

Be that as it may, Apple has never shown any special interest in running OS
X on other people's hardware. They did go through a short period where they
licensed the OS to a handful of clone manufacturers, but that didn't last
long.

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