I’ve talked about my new computer a couple of times in the last few months. My new computer isn’t one that I’ve just bought – my new computer is the one that I’m going to buy next year. I’m waiting a little bit longer than my normal four year upgrade cycle this time simply because my current machine is holding out pretty well. And because Microsoft is going to release a new operating system next year and I don’t want to have to spend my money twice. I’ll guarantee you that the machine that I buy this year isn’t going to fully satisfy the requirements of the operating system that Microsoft is going to release next year – even though I’ve heard that you can run Vista without the frosting on currently available hardware.
Thing is, I’m not even sure that my next machine is going to be a PC. I hadn’t really thought of it before, but why can’t my next machine be a Mac? Running Windows?
‘People are going to go down to their Big Box store, look at the expensive, still-ugly PCs and the nice-looking Macs, compare the two side-by-side. They'll take a cursory look at the user interfaces between Vista and the Mac and see, well, they look pretty much alike and they have the same chips in them and the Mac can run PC software in emulation (and maybe later more directly in some fashion) but the PC can't run Mac-ware.”
I hadn’t really thought this through before, but if the current crop of PCs can run MacOS, and the next generation of Macs can run Windows, I can really afford to broaden my horizons. I haven’t said this in a while, but it looks like its going to be a good year for computer users if any of this comes to fruition.
as i understand it Ross, the underlying bios for the new OS X on intel boxes is not the same as traditional windows, so it won't just work (tm) but might be coralled to work with a bit of hacking.