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The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...


2006-02-16 10:08:10 PM
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The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...
windowsxp.onmac.net/The%20Contest.html
The reward:
$11,908
2006/02/15 06:54 CST
If things can be made legal by the time Vista is released, my next PC will be run on a Mac.
whatcha think!
 
 

Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

"Bob S" wrote on 16 Feb 2006 07:08:10 -0700:
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If things can be made legal by the time Vista is released, my next PC will be run on a Mac.

whatcha think!
I think it is crazy to buy overpriced hardware by Apple to run Windows.
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Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

Hello!
"Bob S" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes news:43f4955a$XXXX@XXXXX.COM...
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The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

windowsxp.onmac.net/The%20Contest.html

The reward:
$11,908
2006/02/15 06:54 CST

If things can be made legal by the time Vista is released, my next PC will be run on a Mac.
OTOH, first virus for Mac OS X
www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/macosxleap.html
I wonder what was reward for the author of this virus?
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whatcha think!
 

Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

"roman modic" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
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OTOH, first virus for Mac OS X
www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/macosxleap.html

I wonder what was reward for the author of this virus?
Prestige? Being the first one... :)
Alan.
 

Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

Bob S writes:
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If things can be made legal by the time Vista is released, my next PC
will be run on a Mac.

whatcha think!
You don't want to know.
 

Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

Bob S writes:
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whatcha think!
I'm more interested in seeing Delphi run natively on OSX.
Mark
 

Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

Bob S writes:
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The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

windowsxp.onmac.net/The%20Contest.html

The reward:
$11,908
2006/02/15 06:54 CST

If things can be made legal by the time Vista is released, my next PC
will be run on a Mac.

whatcha think!
I seems silly to run XP on a Mac, for the obvious reason that you will
not be taking advantage of any of the features of your Mac, while still
paying for them. But Delphi running natively on Mac and cross-compiling
for both Win32, MacOS and Linux, yes!
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Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

OD writes:
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I can not understand why PC users are always dreaming about Mac ...
Paying twice the price for a PC hardware is just silly. And if the
interest is the OS, just run Linux on a taiwan PC that cost 400$
max.. so you will be able to pay another 400$ just for a beautiful box
and you will always be under the price of a Mac. Mac was interesting
10 years ago, not now.
When was the last time you tried one out? it is more than just a
beautiful box, the whole user experience is cleaner, simpler, more
powerful and better designed. We just bought one of the new Macs on
Intel (our first Mac ever) and we are very impressed. All that's
missing is Delphi! ;)
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Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

In article <13ozznyz1xek7$.xv9pjq8j5a1t$XXXX@XXXXX.COM>,
Brandon Staggs <"[bstaggs]{AT}[swordsearcher]{DOT}[com]">writes:
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I think it is crazy to buy overpriced hardware by Apple to run Windows.
IIRC, MacWorld magazine compared the new MacBook Pro and a Dell
CoreDuo laptop, and found the Dell only had an $18 advantage to the
Apple.
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Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

I can not understand why PC users are always dreaming about Mac ...
Paying twice the price for a PC hardware is just silly. And if the
interest is the OS, just run Linux on a taiwan PC that cost 400$ max..
so you will be able to pay another 400$ just for a beautiful box and
you'll always be under the price of a Mac.
Mac was interesting 10 years ago, not now.
--
Olivier Dahan
MK Query Builder
www.e-naxos.com
 

Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

OD writes:
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Mac was interesting 10 years ago, not now.
No, it wasn't.
 

Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

On 2006-02-16 17:39:06 +0000, "Mark A. Andrews" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>said:
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I'm more interested in seeing Delphi run natively on OSX.
You get my vote. :-)
Dave (posted from an Intel Mac)
 

Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

"David Dean" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
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IIRC, ***Mac***World magazine compared [..] and found the Dell only had
[..]
No kidding :)))
 

Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

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I can not understand why PC users are always dreaming about Mac ...
The Mac is cool and PC's are the domain of the evil empire. ;)
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Paying twice the price for a PC hardware is just silly. And if the
interest is the OS, just run Linux on a taiwan PC that cost 400$ max..
MacOSX <>Linux. Not even close; ask your grandmother to use Linux.
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so you will be able to pay another 400$ just for a beautiful box and
you'll always be under the price of a Mac.
Not necessarily true, look at the links I posted earlier in this thread.
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Mac was interesting 10 years ago, not now.
Mac is much more interesting since the release of OSX, and if they manage to
gain more marketshare, they will be *very* interesting.
 

Re:The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11,908 so far...

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>IIRC, ***Mac***World magazine compared [..] and found the Dell only
had
>[..]

No kidding :)))
Due to the source, there's certainly reason to be skeptical, but no reason
to be dismissive.