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You got that right, buddy.
Not only isn't the $50 savings worth it to own a Mac, as long as Jobs and company insist on what is essentially a closed market for their OS, software manufacturers are going to look at the potential sales numbers for OS X, shake their heads and walk away from the idea of porting their products to Mac OSes.

It's not necessarily that OS X is a bad OS (I honestly haven't used it and can't say - my experience with Macs ended with OS 8.5 and the iMac) but that the skilled labor required to port a popular Wintel app to a Mac OS is not cheap, and that expenditure must be recouped by sales.

IBM was savvy enough to realize that not doing as Apple did and trying to monopolize the market for Intel iron would create a massive market for Microsoft OS-based computers, and that its slice of that market would be larger than ALL of the market for a less popular OS.

As long as Apple seeks to maintain a monopoly on building OS X machines, people who actually have to exchange data with other folks who use Wintel iron are going to look askance at them; so will software makers who can stay afloat very nicely while not entering the Mac market at all.

Apple made a gutsy move by going to Intel innards for their new Macs. It's time to follow through by going head-to-head with Microsoft as an OS manufacturer, and competing with them for market share.

Mac users tell us that OS X is better than Windows. Fine. SHOW US. Head to head, on the same machines.
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Waste of money??  lmb320@... | 04/15/08
OpenBrick?  LilBambi_z | 04/15/08
brick?  cheapasskevin | 04/25/08
Sign of the new economy  mrdelurk@... | 04/16/08
You got that right, buddy.  jlafitte | 04/15/08
Show?  FirstNLastN | 04/17/08
User interface? Give me a break.  jlafitte | 08/07/08
Better system, plus  Michael Kelly | 04/15/08
Vey nice.  Me_too | 04/15/08
Still only a clone  radstat77 | 04/15/08
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If I could get one here in Australia  tracy anne | 04/15/08
RE: Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)  lohenbrau | 04/15/08
Are they really comparable?  martyh@... | 04/15/08
They're all right.  jlafitte | 04/15/08
If it runs OS/X, it's a Mac to me!  drutledge@... | 04/15/08
RE: If it runs OS/X...  bfilipiak@... | 04/17/08
Be careful with that kind of talk!  Cayble | 04/21/08
RE: Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)  weaesq | 04/15/08
Spot on!  schneb | 04/16/08
Long may it continue  Skullet | 04/15/08
RE: Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)  blackjack861@... | 04/15/08
Apple sticker  sgdreamer | 04/15/08
Install only on a Mac?  boomchuck1 | 04/17/08
RE: Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)  Billybob115 | 04/15/08
technically both...  LilBambi_z | 04/15/08
RE: Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)  ed777 | 04/15/08
same thing that happened to the early Mac clones  jlafitte | 04/15/08
Obviously you haven't been paying attention  tracy anne | 04/17/08
In fact  tracy anne | 04/17/08
quality is all hype!  cymru999 | 04/16/08
RE: Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)  joel@... | 04/16/08
Psystar is a joke-BEWARE!  rigo12 | 04/16/08
Yes, Psystar is a HOAX  devin6687 | 04/21/08
RE: Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)  muthu16@... | 04/16/08
RE: Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)  GlenShearer | 04/16/08
not the courts, but the consumer  qtvinsta | 04/16/08
RE: Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)  trm1945 | 04/16/08
It's a con . . .  pikeman666 | 04/17/08
Open Computer is ugly  FirstNLastN | 04/17/08
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RE: Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)  fdsaasdffdsa | 04/21/08

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