Engadget has posted a graphic this morning of “Mac OS” appearing as a choice in the drop-down box on Dell’s driver downloads site.
“Well, isn’t that unusual? Dell offering OS X driver downloads on their site? Hmm. We know you want it, Mike, but somehow we don’t think your company has Jobs in your pocket quite yet. Give it some time though, we’re sure he’s bound to come around now that he’s in the PC business, himself,” Ryan Block writes for Engadget.
According to Block, the drivers listed on Dell’s site don’t actually appear to be files for use in “Mac OS.” I just appears to be a strange error on Dell’s part.
Full article with graphic here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Islandgirl” for the heads up.]
[UPDATE: 9:24am EDT: “Dell currently offers OS X drivers for their printers, and in all likelyhood they have simply made a mistake while making site adjustments,” sHARD reports for OSx85 Project.]
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“we’re sure he’s bound to come around now that he’s in the PC business, himself,”
Um…. what?
Apple has been in the PC business for bout 30 years.
Looks like “Dull” are looking for direction and don’t quite know where to turn. Good thing they do realise that OS X is the way forward.
he’s dreaming if he thinks he’ll ever sell Macs. We;ll miss Dell here in Austin next decade when they roll up their shop.
Doesn’t Dell sell printers….printers that could have OS X drivers
Once again, they all want us…
But can never have us…
REALEASE THE LAWYERS!!!
Everyone keeps saying that the Mac option on the dell site is for printer driver but if you look closer you will see the mac option is listed for individual computer systems. Why would dell put the mac OS option on their desktop and laptop systems? What is going on that we are not aware of? Many say that Apple will not let others put the Mac OS on their systems but is this an indication of things to come? Apple was never supposed to switch to X86 and we know how that turned out. Not saying Dell is going to put OSX on their systems but it does make one wonder.
They also sell monitors, they are used quite a bit with Macs, I’m sure thats where all this is coming from.
Don’t read too much into this, it’s probably just the hardware drivers so Windows will run on the Intel Mac’s.
Micheal Dell only wanted Mac OS X for his generic PC’s as a leveraging chip against Microsoft, he could care less about Mac OS X market share increasing. We all know he wants to see Apple dead. They are a major compeitior just like HP is.
Dell is over their “peak”, their name is worn out in the industry and they are on the gradual slope down. Micheal Dell knows this and like HP did, is trying to hitch on the rising star of Apple to prevent them from coming the next major Mac/PC vendor in the industry.
It’s obvious Apple has it’s sights on taking Dell out and that Micheal is offering little trojan horses hoping one will take.
Hey Islandgirl… Hafa Adai/Aloha/Talofa…. not sure which, if any applies.
Interesting catch.
MPC Guy…
Aloha/Talofa will suffice. Aloha is Hawaiian. Talofa is Samoan. I don’t know what the other word is.
..just my .02.
It’s gonna happen, probably on June 6th just like it did last year with Intel, this year it’ll be the same day as the Omen!(06/06/06) Apple is working with Dell to sell computers and strip Apple bare!
ARRRGH! …. or maybe it was wishful programming that got uploaded by accident and cost some his job.
Well, it is the NeXT OS Windhose a kind of frustrated Mac OS X .. for Dell, wich could make Steve J the richest man intead of Billy G …
Hafa Adai (pronounced HALF A DAY) is “Hello” in Chamorro, the native language of Guam and the islands of the Northern Marianas. It’s basically used the same way as the word “Aloha” in the Hawaiian Islands.
P.S. The word for hello and goodbye for the Mariana Trench is “glub glub.”
You’ll know you’re saying it right if there is no light and a few bubbles.
“Once again, they all want us…
But can never have us…”
Kinda like Paul Mooney saying,
“Everybody wanna be black, but nobody wants to be black!”
war: What is going on that we are not aware of? Many say that Apple will not let others put the Mac OS on their systems but is this an indication of things to come?
You’ve got to love the Mac crowd. We really love our conspiracies!
you know, I’m not trolling here, but when that “macbook” page picture popped up a month or so ago everbody pointed to that as “evidence” that the ibook would be changed to macbook. Now we see a similar happening and it is dismissed as a mistake.
hmmm…..
ha ha ha
good stuff!
we love our macs!
I’m gonna go mac-off now.
I’ve been downloading Mac OS Drivers from Dell for my Dell Color Laser (a great printer) for more than a year. The Mac OS option has been there for a long time.
Did anyone else notice the lack of ® or ™? This is trademark and copyright infringement. Apple lawyers? Take that site down!
Is it me, or do others picture the Apple lawyers behind velvet ropes like the WAMU commercials?
HP is a PC manufacturer, and they have OS X drivers everywhere..As usual MDN making news out of nothing..Keep it up morons
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