Mac Mondays: You can’t have your cake and eat it too…

Every Mac user is refreshing their RSS feeds constantly waiting for the announcement of someone running Windows xp on a beautiful iMac. I have received numerous emails, messages and calls asking me my thoughts on the subject and I merely reply with an “I don’t care� response. I should care because if Apple had the leverage to run Windows and their own OS, the angels would sing, stocks would rise and many of the wintel boxes on the market would slowly diminish as Apple’s hardware market share accelerated to an all time high.

Let’s look at the other side of the spectrum for all of you Macheads also fighting to run Windows on your Mac. Let’s say this happens or Apple just decides to start giving users the option to buy either OS preloaded on their Mac and suddenly Apple goes from selling 1 million machines a quarter to 5 million and when you go to order an iMac, the wait is more than 5 weeks because Apple does not have enough manufacturing facilities to keep up with demand. The great thing about this deal is when you enter Starbucks, you smile at the sight of 10 Apple notebooks only to be discouraged when only 1 of those users is running the Mac OS and the rest are playing a PC game or troubleshooting driver issues in Windows.

The only individuals benefiting from this Windows on a Mac deal are the Windows users. Mac users will further lose the community built around the Mac, the quality of machines will diminish as Apple fights to put more out and the face of Apple will become more business like due to the fast growth they experience. Let’s let the Mac grow slowly so Apple and its core users can keep up instead of wanting it all right now while Apple is just getting its feet wet with this whole “Intel thing�.