>>> I think Apple might get a lot more converts if they would sell their OS to anybody with an intel-based computer and make it easy to set up as a dual-boot machine.
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>> That would be one slight advantage to Apple of doing that. The disadvantages to Apple far, far outweigh it.
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> What disadvantages? They'd sell more copies of the OS and make more money.
Somehow, I think Apple has looked into this.
In the late '80's and early '90's, the licensed people to build hardware, and it nearly cost them the company.
They make a superbly unified hardware and software package whose success has in part made Apple the most valuable technology company on the planet, and the second most valuable company of any kind.
Disadvantages might include, oh, say, having tens of thousands of customers blaming Apple for problems caused by hardware design of 3rd-party vendors.
>>> Running Boot Camp or Parallels isn't quite the same as actually running Windows, if the user is trying to do intense stuff like music production using soft-synths. Many people simply turn their intel mac into a dual-boot machine and decide which way to boot it depending on what they want to do.
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>> Sorry, David, That is *precisely* what Boot Camp is/does. A dual-boot.
>> Running Boot Camp is EXACTLY the same as actually running Windows.
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> Regarding BootCamp, on music groups I belong to people have said that some of their windows music applications don't work properly. That's what I was going by.
Sorry. It certainly *sounded* as though you were saying that "Boot Camp" and "dual boot" were two different things.
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