I'd pay more....

for a Steve Jobs-signed PC running OSX...

At least Steve knows how to scrawl on bathroon doors....

>>speaks volumes

....but which ones?

Worth?

It seems to me you are confusing the word "worth" with the word "paid".

Windows Snake Oil

Snake oil salesman you mean? Hmm yes I agree! I think 'Snake Oil' would make a good code name for the next version of Windows as it will be of course another useless overpriced piece of crap that doesn't work!

Paris, cos if she signed my computer, I wouldn't touch it again without the use of rubber gloves and a hazmat suit!

Taken the student to court...

The EULA of Mac OS X specifically prohibits it running on competitors' products!

I thought Steve B was caught completely off guard with this, but actually recovered pretty well. The student's "stunt" was designed to provoke hilarity and Steve B recognised this and played his part well.

I actually think the other Steve would have politely declined, then when the cameras had gone thrown a fit. But still, Apple make some great product.

Surely

If Jobs had been asked to sign a laptop running mac os?

Simple...

He'd have signed it first, then written a court filing above it. After all Hackintoshes are against the Mac philosophy.

Wintard

It's not a Hackintosh. You can legally run Windows on an Apple computer, using Apple's Bootcamp if you wish.

Stupid Boy!

Re:Taken the student to court...

"Of course you have to question the intelligence of the student if he basically paid twice as much for the macbook as he would have done for a Windows laptop, only to put Windows on it anyway......"

I checked the prices of macBook, Vaio, Dell, Toshiba, Acer and a bunch of others. For the same top-of-the-range spec (identical processor, memory, disk, screen size) they all worked out at about GBP 1800. Maybe plus or minus 100. So you start looking at other things like build quality, number of USB ports, tray-less (=nothing to break) DVD drive, and the nifty magnetic power connector that means you can't trash your laptop by tripping over the cable.

I think the student made a very smart decision, even if he only ever runs Windows on it. Now his Macbook is unique too, and will help to pay his college fees.

@retards above (e.g. Raspy32, Ascylto)

"roles reversed", duh!

Like, you know, the other way... duh! Steve Jobs signing a (non-Apple) PC -- maybe running OS X, maybe not... either way.

Amen!

I couldn't agree with you more...

but dont take my word for it, one can discover this for themselves, take a trip to the Temple of Jobs and see for yourself how wonderful the holy saint steve really is.

When you arrive at the divine palace, the first thing you'll notice is the royal jobsian chariot parked in a handicapped spot with its license plates removed so he doesnt get a ticket. way to look out for the less fortunate there saint steve... take their f*cking parking spot!

the next thing you'll notice, as you approach the royal hoist we call an elevator, is that saint steve rides alone, why you ask? because no jobsian mac-o-lite in their mind who cherishes their tenure at the divine institution of jobs will dare ride the elevator with him, thanks to his (not so) charming demeanor and love for ripping out the hearts of his devout followers, leaving them broken down, demoralized and unemployed souls when the doors open...

there is so much more....

Why people follow this jackass i haven't the first clue...

at least the bald overweight and aging chair chucker has a sense of humor...

'They'?

Oh please.... you would do better in making your point if you didn't lump all Mac users together and resort to cheap abuse whilst doing it.

Personally, although I do use a fair bit of Apple kit (as well as kit and OS by other companies) and enjoy doing so, I've never had illusions that Apple is a company... and as a company, the only interest it has in me, is how much it can extract from my wallet.

As for Jobs making people cry, you really don't know much about what a bastard the guy can be. Look up the story of how he shafted Woz out of money for his 'help' in designing the electronic side of Breakout.... best of all, Woz only found out when he read a book about Apple years later and started crying. An Apple suit - and this is the bit I really like - put a comforting hand on his shoulder and said "Woz, we're all so sorry.... we all thought you knew." Makes someone who throws chairs a rank amateur!

As much as a bastard Jobs is/was, the comment about how Jobs refused treatment is a low blow. Sure there are stories, but there's been no evidence to support them - and there seems to be a tendency in spreading such tittle-tattle to attack Jobs... rather like the ones about Gates being autistic. If you want to criticise people like Ellison, Jobs et al, there's so much live ammo one can fire, so why pick something like that?

Well said Euchrid!

Not all us Apple "fanbois" worship the church, some of us just like the architecture of the places of worship and the artistic nature of the iconography, the religion is BS like most religion is!

I am a Mac user, and I know Jobs is as corporate as they get. He's a Bastard-Businessman, just like every CEO. You don't $1bn+ in the bank without being a bastard! There's the clever bit, building a "religion" around the public persona, while hiding the devil inside.

Woz was the brains in early Apple and he got shafted, but Woz lives for tech and learning, hence why after making millions, he sold his Apple stock to his subordinates, kept a big chunk and became a junior school teacher. Jobs teaches, but more in a David Koresh/Jim Jones kind of way!

Still love using Apple kit over standard x86 off-the-shelf stuff, I just know the reality, I know that Jobs and MS' answer to Laurel and Hardy, Ballmer and Gates, are all money-grabbing, corp scumbags.

Love the David Koresh reference..

That made me smile, and I agree whole heartedly. Mr. Jobs would be foolish not to nourish this fanatical following, so long as the money spills forth from their wallets. Microsoft's products don't inspire that much passion, but they do get the job done, on a much wider array of hardware - which is how Bill G. managed to make his coin - playing the manufacturers off against each other.

They all only want the cash or kudos, it's up to the user to choose their poison.

I agree to some extent that Mac tin is well designed, though this doesn't necessarily mean it's ideal for all users every time. Everyone's need vary - for example, a Linux netbook for £200 will browse porn just as nicely as a Mac (depends whether you're picky about the image quality, of course), and that's all some folk need.

Blah

Of course they are... Microsoft are a software company - it's their main form of revenue.

Apple are a hardware company, they don't sell the OS separately so don't make any revenue from OS sales (only upgrades.) The only way you can buy OSX is to buy an Apple computer, so if you're using OSX on a non-Apple product you've obtained it illegally.

Get it right.

So why do Apple supply (free of charge) Bootcamp which allows the use of Windows on a Apple machine?

Ouanquerre!

Hardware?

Really?

What about Microsoft Surface? Numerous Microsoft gaming peripherals...?

As I recall, Apple is just a software company that shells up Intel technology in hideously 80s/90s cream plastic and charges far more than its worth.

It's a bit like an X-Box really...another piece of Microsoft Hardware!

A little hypocracy goes a long way....

Yes, a software vendor with a hideous anti-competitive streak:

iPod MUST use iTunes.

OSX MUST use Mac.

PC MUST NOT use OSX

iTunes MUST NOT use generic MP3 players.

No technical reason any more (after all, a Mac is just a fancy Intel box - Hackintoshers prove that all the time), just pure 'hiding behind the lawyers'.

I haven't seen a new PC in beige for sometime (though there are a few bad examples that look like something from a 50's scifi flick - Alienware, I'm looking at you!). I haven't seen a Mac in white and green/orange/pink for some time either. Both Mac and PC have moved on - Admittedly, Apple got there first, but that was largely down to it's re-emphasis into the design and home market sectors in the early 90's.