“In a stunning move, BAPCo, the industry-standard Windows benchmarking consortium, announced that Apple Computer has joined up as a member. BAPCo is responsible for the SYSmark 2004SE and MobileMark benchmark suites we use at PC Magazine Labs for testing PCs. BAPCo also produces the webserver test WEBmark,” Joel Santo Domingo reports for Gearlog.
“This is significant because it means that Apple has now committed to Windows-based performance testing, and it will influence industry-standard testing methodologies going forward, possibly including Mac OS X testing. We speculate that Apple will now develop Windows drivers for Intel Macs like the iMac, Mac mini and MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo processors. You will probably still need to buy your own copy of Windows XP (or Vista), but this is exciting stuff,” Santo Domingo reports. “We’ve seen rumors that Apple will include virtualization technology in Mac Os X 10.5 (Leopard), but benchmarks like SYSmark and MobileMark don’t work well in virtualized environments since they use ultilities that call low level processes (like anti-virus). This bodes well for native Windows support on Macs in the future.”
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Looks like Apple is ready to kick some serious PC asses in the near future…
Fooey!!
Sweet. And interesting!
well, at least my wife won’t have to buy a PC just to run AutoCad
So this means that there is something exciting in the Apple pipeline. As always, time will show and tell.
You think this will be like Classic?
Included in OS X for the few who need to suffer it until eventually, when everyone’s jumped on board the world’s most advanced OS, it’ll be phased out…
The future looks bright
Is Dvorak right..???
In a sea of generic PC boxes, that good looking Apple machine runs everything and comes with Mac OS-X plus a pile of great software.
No other manufacturer has that feature set and it would be worth paying more for.
You know i love apple and everything. I’ve had one for as long as i have used computers. This looks a little fishy to me. I hope all the (stupid, crazy) rumors of Apple giving up on Mac OS. I would hate to have to use Windows. I hope that it means they are coming up with a way to run Windows applications natively WITHOUT Windows. That would be great.
Peter J. “well, at least my wife won’t have to buy a PC just to run AutoCad”
But she has to buy a copy of Windows OS…
Yea, hopefully, do an emulator, until no one wants to run Windows again… .
Twinkie,
Keep an eye on Darwine , which has been progressing at a feverish pace for the past year. It’s now at v 0.9.10 developer’s preview level. An official 1.0 release can’t be too far away.
The last thing I want to do is put Windows on my Mac.
http://darwine.opendarwin.org//
MDN MW = will
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Apple is going to digest Windows from the inside like NeXT did to Apple. Like Pixar will do to Disney.
It’s just silly to think that Apple is giving up on Mac OS. If for no other reason, there would be mass resignation of Apple employees the day of the announcement. And a lot of bad will.
If this comes to pass, why will developers feel any need to develop on OSX? Adobe, or others, will say, “You can run the Windows version on a Mac now, why should we bother (to make an OSX version)?”
If the performance is that good, no one will develop for the Mac anymore.
This could shoot Apple in the foot. Right?
Good News for those who want to integrate both platforms into one (the corporate types).
In the meantime, I’ll remain a one OS / one computer kind of guy.
Let’s be realistic here, Apple has worked too hard to throw OSX down the toilet, it still has a ton of untapped potential, and I do think the switch to Intel is just the first phase of demonstrating OSX’s unique and powerful features and capabilities, now that it exists on Intel hardware, and Apple has fewer worries about CPU supply shortages, and has more legroom to entice developers to OSX, I think we will really see OSX sparkle. I am sure now with access to faster hardware Apple will have more freedom to do the things with OSX they’ve always wanted to do, but were too restrained to do in the past. I think OSX’s future looks very bright, especially with the complexity of windows starting to drag the whole operating system down under its own weight.I also predict that the support for windows is really only a crutch, an attempt to lure Windows users to the mac platform, by saying “see we run all your applications”. Once people are on the mac platform for the first time, and see that these same apps work on OSX and work better, I do think Microsoft will lose the death grip its held over people in the past. Only time will tell…
Not a chance.
Apple has not forgotten that IBM built Windows compatibility into OS/2.
All that happened is people stopped developing for OS/2.
Nothing to see here…
Unless I missed something, I don’t think anyone is saying that Apple is going to get rid of Mac OS in favor of Windows. That would be corporate suicide. We all know that while Mac boxes are great, it’s really the OS that matters.
I find humor in people like this touting rumors. “We’ve heard rumors that…”. The Mac news/rumor community is so incestuous that one rumor can start on one site and be all over the map in 24 hours. I could make a fake rumor about the new banana colored triangular screened iMac coming out, send it to MacRumors, and watch it propogate itself all day. Eventually the “analysts” would tout the rumor as being seen on several web sites.
There is NO WAY that Apple is going to drop OS X. The software that Steve practically built himself (well not all by himself) – in favor of Windows? Forget it.
I believe that ever since Mr. Jobs returned back to Apple he has had a plan to move away from the PPC and on to the Intel chip. Remember NeXt ran on Intel and NOT the PPC chip first. He’s becoming hardware universal.
Level the playing field and then overtake Windows. It’s all been happening since the iMac.
If an Apple can run Windows apps without Windows then Microsoft Windows is going to be finished. First maybe in emulation or whatever they want to do. Some people might hang on, but would you if you didn’t have to? A chance to be virus free? But mostly FREE of Microsoft.
Get vendors to tweak their apps for X and then good-bye Microsoft Windows.
Bill Gates and Ballimer must be crapping in their pants right now. Especially since they can’t get their OS out of the door. Clearly they DON’T have a plan.
There is a Tsunami coming to Redmond in the shape of an Apple.
MDN magic word – JUSTICE
The fact that some people think this means Apple is giving up on OS X, and/or think that this will influence developers (like Adobe!!!!) to stop OS X support just goes to show how idiotic and fearful people can be. Get a freakin grip.
” . . . it means that Apple has now committed to Windows-based performance testing, and it will influence industry-standard testing methodologies going forward, possibly including Mac OS X testing.
That’s pretty much it, folks.
apple 1984 asks: “If this comes to pass, why will developers feel any need to develop on OSX? Adobe, or others, will say, “You can run the Windows version on a Mac now, why should we bother (to make an OSX version)?””
Because Mac users won’t stand for a shitty interface. Native MacOS X App’s will therefore always have a competitive advantage.
More than likely, Apple is making this move because there is some basis in fact for the Dharma rumor.
“Apple is going to digest Windows from the inside like NeXT did to Apple. Like Pixar will do to Disney.”
like Neo from inside Agent Smith…
Our business MUST have both Macs and PCs, period. If Macintels are capable of running Windows at near native speeds, we will transition our shop of 35 Macs, over the next year, completely to news Macs, period.
Those who bash Windows, bash on brother. But we have to serve clients and run our shop with feet in both worlds. But to be able to have both environments in a Mac box seals the deal, and we will, if needed, pay through the nose for such boxes.
Jobs, are you listening.