1st of all , okay maybe the PowerMac G5 is expensive . But what is a G5 ?
Seems it's Apple's Itanium , What about the costs of a Itanium with WindozeXP64 (jaks)
Apple is selling G5 iMacs too it's user's now , for what you get they even don't cost too much . So Mac home user's are getting their Itaniums now ( okay some Mac .. )
Where are the Itanium home Users , wait till 2006 to find them cause you wont find to many now .
2nd , What is Mac OS X Server 1.x ( aka Rhapsody )
Apple wanted to port OpenStep ( NeXT ) to the Mac & also PC mainly because using Yellowbox made it easy to port your code both to PowerPC & x86 ( & any other platform too ) . But there where 2 major problems , all older Mac applications had to be completely rewritten ( this was not what Mac developers wanted at that time & it would make Mac OS X applications be released too late because of the process of rewriting them ) , also Micro$luts owns a pretty big amount of Apple , they saw OS X x86 as an attack on Windoze ( and you all know what Micro$luts do to his opponents ) . So Yellowbox became Cocoa ( with less platform portibility & more old Mac Os compatibility . That compatibility was provided trough Carbon & Carbon also provided the Classic environement which was a far better aproach then the MasOS.app aproach ( MacOS.app made run Mac OS full screen on it's own in front of Mac Os X , Classic makes it run as a part of OS X ) All this was done somewhere between the OS X Developers Previews ( DP 1 was a non server Rhapsody , DP 4 introdused Aqua , the new gui , i can't tell where carbon & classic apeared , DP 4 had all of it though while DP 1 had none )
Personally i had rather seen the original Mac gui survided , maybe with Aqua as prefered second gui in a form of Desktop theme's . But that's my personal opinion & i must also admitt that i'm comfortaly using Aqua right now .
I'dd still like to get me a copy of Mac Os X Server 1.2 for my older Mac though ( & the DP's too as i don't really need the Server OS ) . This older Mac is also capable of running the latest OS X ( Panther ) thanx to XPostFacto & with a G3 300 it runs Panther comfortly .
I hope my message was explaining the open questions in this thread .
Greets
Albert
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