From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 12:31:45 EDT
well, you know, apple is partly owned by M$..
but even so, it is not a thought that has not occured to me, as well, if for
no other reason than to see what the "dark side of the force" looks like..
:-)
and this gives me a further thought..
all thoughts of apple being a "closed" system vis-a-vis hardware changes and
plug and play aside, it occures to me to wonder if anyone has cross-compiled
or transported the Mac OS-X to an intel platform..
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: <billy_at_MIX.COM>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: buying a thinkpad without microsoft is NOT POSSIBLE from IBM
> Mick McQuaid <mcquaid_at_u.arizona.edu> wrote -
>
> > An email from EmperorLinux tech support confirms
> > that they can NOT get windows-free machines from
> > any large vendors, including Dell, IBM, and Sony.
> > They say they have fought for this, but only small
> > manufacturers will do it. They also confirmed
> > that this is the reason for the free dual-boot
> > option.
>
> Bummer. I hate to even bring this up here and I still
> use and love my Thinkpads but my last two desktops have
> been Macintoshes. Apple's notebook keyboards are not
> so hot though (neither are their desktop ones), and I
> say that as one who currently has FOUR spares on hand
> for the Thinkpads - even though they crap out too at
> least when they are working they're much nicer if you
> have to do a lot of typing.
>
> Billy Y..
>
>
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