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To: jonkai who wrote (34028)7/17/2002 3:05:46 PM
From: Doren  Respond to of 213182
 
and how exactly do you do the plug and play experience?

1) either you do the ROM thing

2) sell premium priced G4 machines guaranteed to work to those willing to pay ( the current strategy ) and let others take their chances.

What's so hard about that? #2 would enable linux geeks and other tinkerers to play around with OSX without having to buy a machine.



To: jonkai who wrote (34028)7/17/2002 3:12:43 PM
From: Alomex  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213182
 
and how exactly do you do the plug and play experience?

Easy, you have an Apple certified program (just like windows use to have a long time ago). If you buy hardware that isn't certified, all bets about p-n-p are off!



To: jonkai who wrote (34028)7/17/2002 3:38:54 PM
From: Don Green  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213182
 
jon> Don Green said he could just add a firewire card and be up and golden

Jon speaks with forked tongue.



To: jonkai who wrote (34028)7/17/2002 4:40:42 PM
From: David Kelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213182
 
jonkai,

I am talking about Apple only selling x86 boxes direct over the internet. Plain beige pizza box machine not upgradeable in any way running the Mac OS. Okay, so it has USB ports and nothing else. I am thinking like $600. They would be swamped with orders. There should be huge manufacturing capacity sitting out there doing nothing that could be put to work, cheap.

david