Cringely Predicts Apple to Ship OS X for Any PC

boosman writes "In his current column, and in a similar op-ed piece in The New York Times, Robert X. Cringely predicts that Apple 'will announce a product similar to Boot Camp to allow OS X to run on bog-standard 32-bit PC hardware.' I dissect why this is unthinkable and challenge Cringely to a public bet on the subject."

That's telling him!

[maggard]

Oooohhh!

Random blogger issues challenge to PBS columnist / NYT editorialist!

ASCII animation at 11pm...

Jack it, boyeee!

[Anonymous Coward]

Using the mouse shouldn't be more complicated than masturbation.

Re:I want OSX on my Dell

[bloodstains]

...and I want a Pony...

Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window

[Hal_Porter]

Dvorak, Cringely and Jobs and all the Apple fans should take part in a public mass debate about this.

Re:That's telling him!

[hunterx11]

It's a good thing that Cringely has far more credibility than a random blogger.

Re:Not any time soon, but eventually this will hap

[ACME Septic]

Linux is shaping up to be better and better at being user friendly and desktop quality. Apple will have to compete with that. Are you high, man?

Re:I want OSX on my Dell

[carpe_noctem]

With regards to missing standard keys, could you be more specific? Are you referring to "Prt Scr," "Sys Rq," etc? Which keys are missing that are considered "standard"?

Well, there's this funny looking key between "Alt" and "Ctrl" on my USB keyboard that doesn't seem to do anything under OSX....

Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window

[IgnoramusMaximus]

He's wrong for a reason. Dvorak has found a niche in publishing the unthinkable, and generating endless reams of flamebait from all kinds of industry pundits.

Essentially he has become an Ann Coulter of the computer industry. Same gig, different arena.

Re:That's telling him!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oooh, good come back, Boosman!

Great idea.

[Kadin2048]

Humm...but getting them in one place at one time would be tough. So it would be better to do it via a newspaper or something. But that's so 20th century. If only there was some kind of web site, dedicated to tech issues, where anyone who wanted to could come in and post an opinion, for everyone else to read....

Pity it hasn't been invented yet.

Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window

[thc69]

The students are getting treats a lot more than you think -- all the students pressing "B" are getting the thought-treat "I'm screwing this dude's research up...uh huhuhuhuh..."

Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window

[Anonymous Coward]

When you have to start guessing what you meant, you should know its time to shut the shope and go home.

Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window

[bahamat]

you get to strut around like you've got a private channel to Gold almighty

You have a very high opinion of gold.

Re:I want OSX on my Dell

[Man of E]

With regards to missing standard keys, could you be more specific?

It's missing the Windows key ...

Re:More Likely: Windows OEM

[NutscrapeSucks]

I also have to say that it's entertaining watching you Mac Guys struggle with the Cognitive Dissonance of Apple shipping a largely standard PeeCee (which is apparently something you don't really understand anyway). Time to move on to "Acceptance" because mental gymnastics is not going to make it go away!

Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window

[russellh]

Essentially he has become an Ann Coulter of the computer industry. Same gig, different arena.

Although he doesn't (yet) advocate rounding up Apple users and putting them in camps.

Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window

[spectre_240sx]

"When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?" -- John C. Dvorak

Classic. Absolutely classic.

Re:Some MacPoints...

[shmlco]

I should have known better. However, the point remains that you're the one who's failing to understand nor appreciate the issues behind the design.

Are you sure you wouldn't be happier with an IBM Selectric? After all, your keyboard of choice is missing the white-out and line-feed keys.

Re:Great idea.

[Jesus_666]

I think there is a site like that. It's called "Dig" or something.

Re:More likely than Apple dropping OS X for Window

[aichpvee]

I certainly can. It's really too bad that you can't also. The excited squeals of mac users as they rush to flipflop again and proclaim microsoft the greatest company ever and the only one with elegant, usable interfaces. Oh, you should see the joy on their faces too. They look so happy as they wait in line for the midnight release of Microsoft WindowsOS. Really warms my heart to see such genuine happiness. Oh look, one of the little maclets has gotten away from his mother and is snuggling up against an xbox 360. SHE'S BUYING IT FOR HIM! He's so happy he's doing a little dance. It's so beautiful, I wish you could see it, nuggetman.

Apple and the unwashed masses

[theolein]

Over the last few years, and especially since Apple switched to x86 and even more since Boot Camp was released, I've watched the usual suspects here on Slashdot rip Apple for not selling OSX on generic PC hardware. To be very honest, I don't think those people would ever be happy, whatever one were to do for them, but it did occur to me that one way that Apple can really swing in extra cash is for Applw to make a generic grey box PC ITSELF! That's right, for Apple to make a bog standard cheapo PC with mutiple drive bays, numerous free PCI and PCIe slots, in a cheap as shit case from GuShangHoo or where ever in China and sell it along with OSX for all the motherfuckers who complain here constantly about not being able to get cheap hardware.

It would be an interesting experiment.

I'll take bukakke for a hundred, Alex

[Ohreally_factor]

I'd like to nominate you to be the slashdot representative in this debate, since clearly your public mass debating skills are second to none.

Inquiring minds want to know...

[FredFnord]

I took a survey for one of my friends doing some psych project.

She came back later and was like "you were lying!"

I told her just because I'm outside the 'norm' doesn't mean I lied my way through her set of questions.

So, for the curious among us... were you lying?

-fred