Everything used in the enterprise is part of the enterprise market, including workstations.


Many IT staffers don't like learning new technologies; if they'd had their way, we'd still be on Windows 3.X. They complained vociferously about Windows 95 and 98, then howled about Windows 2000 and XP, and bellowed about Vista, 7, and 64-bit architectures. It only makes sense they'd be afraid of OSX, and they don't deserve the label of "hardcore geeks." Real geeks appreciate good technology -- these guys would have us using Dell Dimension 3000s, 32-bit XP, and IE 6 forever.


There were always Macs in some enterprises, and according to various sources, the OSX presence is increasing. It doesn't hurt that $1000 all-in-one iMacs can be had, machines that are not just pretty but highly functional, being easy to use, interoperable with other technologies including Windows, and resistant to the malware that plagues the Windows world. In fact, today I interviewed for a network support position in an organization with 27,000 PCs, and was told many of them are Macs. (If I get the job, I may just get a real Mac.)

Fully support of GTX 570 graphics card, no modifications needed at all (of course GraphicsEnabler=YES), running at full res even smoother than a patched Lion. It's like native.

Congratulations to its owners!

Maybe. Maybe not. We really have no way of knowing. I don't doubt that some number of people would buy OS X for generic Intel. That, by itself, is not a reason for Apple to start selling it. Like any other business, it needs to decide where to put resources. They need to weigh the potential of a generic OS X against the potential of each alternative use of those resources.

But, in fact, I see Apple going more and more in the other direction. I don't think it wants to swim in the same morass of backwards compatibility as Microsoft and have to react to vendor hardware changes like Microsoft. The primary reason MS is always behind on the innovation curve is that it has no choice but to drag yesterday's hardware along with it.

E.g., Mountain Lion won't work on a few Apple machines from a few years ago. We hear some grousing, but nothing will happen. Imagine, though, if Microsoft announced that Windows 8 will not run on Intel hardware made before January, 2009.

The near future is one of integration of iOS and OS X and a hardening of the dependencies of that software on specific Apple hardware.

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hope it's ok to ask

any idea if this will be a paid upgrade?

same price as Lion, download full version for $29.99 ??

Apple being Apple, they probably would charge
The price should be a bit lower imo but it depends on the changes I think.
You just have to

Modifying OSX to run on generic hardware would be simple. (Heck, we're doing it.) And Apple, now that they're "on their own," may be re-evaluating Jobs' stance on licensing OSX for other hardware. Their internal research may be suggesting that PC software margins are more lucrative than hardware ones, and that they have a chance to take away significant market share from Microsoft.

Back in the Sixties, Pontiac sold a famous muscle car called the GTO ... unlike its GM stablemates, the GTO did not have a rear sway bar, apparently because division head John Z. De Lorean did not believe in them. Eventually, De Lorean was promoted, and lo and behold, the GTO finally got its rear stabilizer bar.


It's debatable that Microsoft's behind the technical curve (ask Novell, DEC, Wang, etc.), but I don't want to stray too far off-topic.


I suspect the main reason for not supporting older hardware is to encourage the sale of new hardware and dodge issues with gradual failure that naturally occur with older hardware (like failing lasers, bad capacitors, and surge damage).

There is no way on earth Apple would do this - in my opinion they simply couldn't do it even if they wanted to - Imagine the absolutely vast combination of hardware devices that they would have to support. I believe its more likely Apple are headed in the total opposite direction and the signs are already starting to show - I believe not only do they wish to contain the hardware available for you to use but now also the software. Mountain Lion is the seed for this as its now starting to prompt you if you try and install an application outside of the app store (although oddly not if its an app on a network drive that could have been downloaded from anywhere and riddled with any number of malware). I can see a future release where any app downloaded outside of the app store and not signed by Apple will simply not be installable.

Just my 2 cents and you can keep the change lol

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Sorry but some of you guys are really dreaming!!
Why should Apple make OS X capable to run every hardware? That they need to write 100.000 more drivers and destroy the best OS in the world and someday get like Windows ??
And if Apple would do that, think about it, there would be more viruses and trojans and whatever for OS X, because more people would use it.


OS X costs like 1/6 of Windows and you still think 30$ is expensive C'mon

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Does anyone else remember in the 90's when Gil Amelio about drove the company into the ground by licensing Mac OS to clones and actual Mac sales plummeted?

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Macbook Air 13"- 1.7 GHz Core i5; HD Graphics 3000; 128 GB SSD; 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Macbook Pro 13"- 2.3 GHz Core i5; HD Graphics 3000; 500 GB HDD/SSD Hybrid Drive; 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
iMac G4- PowerPC G4 800 MHz; GeForce 2 MX 32 MB; 60 GB IDE HDD; 768 MB PC-133 DDR
Toshibatosh- 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; GMA4500MHD; 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2; TSSTCorp DVD Drive (buggy); 320 GB HDD
Lenovo- Lenovo G31T-LM Motherboard; 2.0 GHz Dual Core Intel Pentium; GMAX3100 + Zotac Nvidia GTX 465 1 GB; 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2; 500 GB HDD
VAIO- 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; GMA950 + Nvidia GeForce 7400 Go; 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2; 160 GB HDD
Asus 1005HAB- 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270; GMA 950; 2 GB 800 MHz DDR2; 160 GB 5400rpm HDD

............. sorry for the inconvenience.
I mean that in any case, the software does not cost so little, as there is a very high initial cost, for Mac

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