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[Hammer]

@Belial6

When - exactly - Apple sold "Macintoshs" with an vanilla BSD distro, an Apple desktop backdrop and Sheepshaver for running 68k MacOS software?

Commodore 64 was shipped with Microsoft Basic as it's user interface. Shipping with Microsoft Windows just follows this path.

[Hammer]

That's a key thing there. Show me any laptop from any other manufacturer, high end or otherwise, that doesn't have air vents on the bottom. I mean, it's crazy. The amount of Dell XPSs I've seen with busted motherboards because of overheating, and some of them cost more than a Macbook. Granted, they're known to have GPU cooling problems, but even so - you pay €1,300 for a laptop, you expect it to not require a motherboard replacement every year or so until the extended warranty runs out.

MacBook Pro has it's own issues with cooling issues. Remember, the PC industry has issues with NVIDIA Geforce 8400M(G86M)/8600M (G84M) "bump gate".


PS; I own Dell Studio XPS 1645 (Y2010) with cooler AMD Radeon HD 5730M/6570M (26 watts). The latest MacBook Pro 2011 with AMD Radeon HD 6750M (~30-35 watts) spec looks good. My Dell Studio XPS 1645 (Y2010) has backlit keyboard and metal body on the main case.

[Hammer]

They don't ship with windows btw.

C64 was still shipped with Microsoft's user interface solution. Microsoft Windows follows Microsoft Basic's OEM business model.

For user interface, there are plenty of 8bit micro-computers with shipped Microsoft Basic.
Microsoft's early success wasn't fluke.

[Hammer]

I think at least one of us is misunderstanding the other

What I meant was the 64x does not ship with windows.

The primary target market is likely to be Windows users with good memory of C64.