Dell Willing To Sell Mac OS X

i would rather shoot myself than see dells with OS X

This will never happen under Jobs. Whoever becomes CEO after him, well, that's another story.

Quite an interesting read. Although, from Apple's point of view.. mass selling Mac OS X like Windows would be very profitable and in a way good for us all as more software would come to the mac.

However, I often feel that we'd be jealous of this. Mac users like to keep to themselves in a way. We like to think ourselves apart.. I think we all like being in a niche market, where we can brag about our systems. I think this is why we all got a bit huffed at WWDC because part of our arguements to why Macs are better was taken away from us.

I'm the same though... but I don't know, perhaps an OS X world would be a safer and better one.

Of course he would. Why would it be a bad thing for any PC company to offer a different OS? But it won't happen, at least not yet.

Michael Dell, the founder and Chairman of Dell computer stated that Dell would be open to selling systems with Mac OS. Check out the article.

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,1072719,00.html

*throws up* - again.

In an yet imaginary world, where Steve Jobs is not working anymore to Apple and the board of CEOs decided to make the very last bit of money of Jobs' legacy, I would dare to say that this is indeed possible.

If this is a matter of time...I just hope that this will not happen in the next 10 years...or at least when my new iMac gets obsolete...15 years, then ? :p

I agree ... I think Steve Jobs will approach the OS differently this time around ... his previous decision helped make Microsoft what it is today. I don't think he'll make the same mistake twice.

Steve's problem was he never copyrighted the OS he created. Microsoft took it and there was nothing he could do besides piss and moan.

jon

Dell already sells Intel boxes with Linux...

While it's true that Apple would sell more copies of OS X, how much
would their development expenses go up, needing to support a broader
spectrum of hardware? And if Dell is just going to build boxes to Apple's
spec, what's in it for Apple? Why wouldn't they want to capture whatever
profit is in the hardware for themselves?

Hard to see how this would benefit Apple, unless they have manufacturing
constraints. With Intel inside (ahem), shouldn't one of the major bottlenecks
be gone?

How hard would it be for them to port OS X to Sparc? Maybe Apple should
buy Sun, given Sun's depressed stock price.

I just cant see Dells w/ OS X in them. It's like putting a BMW engine in a Hyundai. I can see them, however, selling Apple computers. That would make a lot of sense for Apple.