Beige Hardware and Boot Camp Implications

post from Mac Geekery - Get your geek on. on 07 April 2006 05:00:20 AM. © Mac Geekery - Get your geek on.

I'm all about throwing more fuel on the fire, but many would tell you that I'm not good at starting a fire of my own. Apparently, I buy diesel by the truckload and keep leaving the matches at home. Last month, the codepoet posited his position on Apple selling OS X for Beige Hardware and had a lot of good reasons for why he felt they won't. Others have given their reasons for why they think it's in Apple's future. No one on either side of the issue seems to remember one key fact, though.

Most computer buyers don't spend a single dollar on their computer after the initial purchase.

It's a fact you can live by. Ask around your family and poll some friends. You'll find a few geeks, nerds, and some not-so-nerdy and not-so-geeky who will buy a shareware program here and there, or a cable from time to time, but as a rule people do not spend much money on existing hardware.

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