ozmanjusri's Journal: Native Win32 on OSX?

Coders working on Wine for Mac have found that the Mac loader has gained its own undocumented ability to load and understand Windows Portable Executable (PE) files

They found PE loading capabilities in Leopard that weren't there in Tiger. Further dissection showed that Apple is masking references to *Win* and *PE* in the dll, which means it's not an accidental inclusion.

Is Apple planning native PE execution within OSX? The ability to use existing Windows software on OSX machines would dramatically lower the barrier to switching, and there's no doubt that there's considerable interest in alternative operating systems since Vista's less than inspiring debut.

There's unlikely to be a better time for Apple to make a grab for the OS market. Maybe 2008 will be the year of OSX on the desktop.

APPLE needs a MID-range HEAD LESS DESKTOP

[Joe The Dragon]

APPLE needs a MID-range HEAD LESS DESKTOP for this idea to become a big hit

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[Captain Splendid]

That'll be the mac mini then.

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[Joe The Dragon]

The mini is over priced and underpowered. $600 for a laptop HD, 1gb of ram, slow cpu, CDRW / DVD and gma950.

I build a system with faster cpu, better MB, 2gb of ram and real video card for the same price.