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I, Cringely – OSX and iPods

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Cringely says a lot of outragous things, but he always get me thinking.
His latest is, you shouldn’t need a mac to run OSX just an iPod.
I like the idea.

Boot OSX off a iPod
Every one of those iPods is a bootable drive. What if Apple introduces OS 10.5, its next super-duper operating system release, and at the same time starts loading FOR FREE the current operating system version — OS 10.4 — on every new iPod in a version that runs on generic Intel boxes? What if they also make 10.4 a free download through the iTunes Music Store?