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nihilist:
I have my own specific beef with gaming these days, and the badness that has happened when it went from gamer/developer driven to marketing driven/corporate global domination.
Apple needs to do a few things to make their computers more popular: lower the price, open up the code in certain places, change their target audience from the hipster crowd. The biggest problem that I can see is that of the processor: the PPC core is entirely different from the x86 system. Porting is a serious effort, and one that requires a lot of time. If Apple made an API that developers could use, it'd probably make life a lot easier. Wonder how the new Xbox will touch this, since it's PPC based, will MS be releasing a version of Windows for the PPC? That'd be so goddamn funny, I'd have to die laughing.
mosfet:
Actually I think I still have a copy of Windows NT4 for PPC in a box somewhere. But that was the IBM PPC, and not the Apple PPCs, Not that theres a huge difference.
I would love to see some competitively priced PowerMacs. I'm in the market for one right now, but that requires me selling my Powerbook first. (not to mention suddenly finding at least $1000)
nihilist:
I'm trying to decide if I want to buy a Mac Mini, or one of the knockoffs. Mac Mini is cheaper, which is odd. But it's mini. And I'd just put Gentoo on it anyway. :)
mosfet:
would that be a Gentoo Mini? :)
One of my fantasies involves a cluster of Mac Minis.
nihilist:
Heh, I found a chassis that supports 4 mini-ITX motherboards at once. Via is churning out dual-CPU dual-core mini-ITX systems. I'd like to put 10 of those together. Not very fast, but cheap, quiet, low power, low heat. And clustered... Mmm. :)
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