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Commodore set to introduce high-end gaming PCs {Engadget}
Mar 6th 2007 4:42PM I just hope it has a commodore basic shell we can drop into and play the old stuff... just like the venerable c-128. YA Commodore!
Boot Camp: the day after {Engadget}
Apr 6th 2006 4:34PM As someone who has both in my household, it is kind of a nice thing. This means I don't have to build my girlfriend a computer everytime I upgrade. Currently we run OSX10.3.9 on a 300 meg mac...and nicely. She plays windows games, so she uses a pc.
But she loves OSX because it isn't windows. Those who say great, who wanted OSX anyway?, I have to think that they haven't actually used it. It combines some of the best things about user interfaces,and I'll admit there are a few things I don't like, but there's a lot more I don't like about XP. Thats why I'm running Ubuntu. Once you have 6 or more desktops to separate work out onto, you never want to go back to xp. And Kubuntu's been rock solid stable. But I wish I could run OSX on normal hardware. It seems that Mac is letting the tiger in their court but not unleashing their's. No pun intended. If they released OSx for everyone, lots of people would buy it because they are sick of Microsoft. That's why Linux is doing so well. And people would still buy their Mini's because of their size and power, and their Imac's because of their cool formfactor, and their Macbooks because of their nice features, and especially their multiprocessor systems, because face it, what other home desktop producing company has offered a dual dual core system on the market (4 processor cores)? You don't see microsoft doing it...or dell, or Alienware, Gateway, or Micron. Sure they are expensive, but they are also backed by a warranty and a company that's been doing hardware since the 1970's. That counts for something.
If I could have a pc that is the size of a mini doing everything for 800 bucks with a dvd burner, 100gigs of hard drive and a gig of ram AND dual core for 800$ (latest Mac Mall price) I think that's a steal when you consider it's the size of a small stack of Cd's. For those web developers out there, finally they can cross platform on one box to test web pages and use tools. Try OSX, its great (I have used windows since it came out, unfortunately (sometimes))...I think most people will be pleasantly suprised when they check it out. Windows seems clunky by comparison.
