Dell Adds 'Apple OS X' Driver Download Section

I saw this too. Dell wants Mac badly. Just let him Steve.

Here's a screenshot of Dell's page.

EDIT All of the Mac drivers are .exe file. I guess you'll need Wine to use them.

Here's our image on the main page. Perhaps it will give Mr. Dell some hope:

That would be perrrrrrrty damn sweet considering all the computers in my house are dells...but its doubtful.

Hmm, seems to only have drivers for laptops, not desktops.

It's a printer driver for OS X. I downloaded/extracted/ran the installer packages fom Dell's site. One is called "Dell Laser MFP Installer", and the other "Dell ScanThru Installer".

I think this will happen someday (in the next few years), it would be a little premature now given that Apple (and Adobe) have yet to even complete the transition to x86.

I think this will happen someday (in the next few years), it would be a little premature now given that Apple (and Adobe) have yet to even complete the transition to x86.

Not only that, but the vast majority of people haven't even completed the transition yet. The average joe still doesn't have much of a clue what the significance of x86 Mac's are, other than the fact that it runs faster than "old" macs.

Really, this just re-opens the do-or-die discussion of licensing out OS X. If steve play's his card's right, something good could come out of it for us endusers. As long as it's not another "HP iPod" of a deal...

I logged into Dell's Site and see this now as well. However, the latest news from Dell is they are not going to use the Intel Chips anylonger. They are going to AMD chips. So I am not thinking that they will ever actually have MAC boxes in there line up.

Marine

lol

I think it's fine that they added an OSX section; not everyone would use an Apple official supported printer.. Hell I use a Lexmark printer myself, which works fine(PPC drivers, too).

I logged into Dell's Site and see this now as well. However, the latest news from Dell is they are not going to use the Intel Chips anylonger. They are going to AMD chips. So I am not thinking that they will ever actually have MAC boxes in there line up.

 

Marine

They are not going strictly AMD. I don't think anyone is implying they are going to sell Computers with OsX they are just responding to the obvious interest.

I logged into Dell's Site and see this now as well. However, the latest news from Dell is they are not going to use the Intel Chips anylonger. They are going to AMD chips. So I am not thinking that they will ever actually have MAC boxes in there line up.

 

Marine

actually dell have only confirmed that they are going to use amd chips in high end servers.

someone said they would expand lower, but you can bet it will remain mostly intel

I logged into Dell's Site and see this now as well. However, the latest news from Dell is they are not going to use the Intel Chips anylonger. They are going to AMD chips. So I am not thinking that they will ever actually have MAC boxes in there line up.

 

Marine

Even if they did sell AMD chips in desktop machines, you can still run Mac OS X just as well, as long as there are drivers for the rest of the hardware you're using.

haha dell could be nice and add some nvidia graphics card drivers too

about the dell using amd, i did read that they might use amd chips for higher end products but that seems unlikely now considering how intel is finally getting back into the game with its chips. ofcourse, its too early to be sure as amd hasnt even announced its next gen workstation processors and the am2 socket for consumers might just be a stepping stone to amd's next line.

about the dell using amd, i did read that they might use amd chips for higher end products but that seems unlikely now considering how intel is finally getting back into the game with its chips.

Since AMD will still have the edge in 4+ socket space, that is where Dell intends to place them.

The "OSX" downloads are most likely a carry over from the printers and other peripherals.

Since AMD will still have the edge in 4+ socket space, that is where Dell intends to place them.

 

The "OSX" downloads are most likely a carry over from the printers and other peripherals.

currently they do have the advantage but the thing is that you can get 4 xeon chips and stick them on a dual xeon mobo but if you want to get and amd quad dual-core, you will need to buy the 8xx line of processors which costs almost twice as much as the 2xx line of opterons. plus, the quad-core platforms intel is rolling out will mean you need only 2 sockets for 8 cores or 4 sockets for 16 cores. im not sure what amd is offering so im not going to speculate.

yea about the os x downloads, they are probably for the people who use dell printers in os x. ofcourse, they could "accidentally" post some nvidia drivers

" Dell Adds 'Apple OS X' Driver Download Section"

That's not what the screenshot shows. It shows that DELL added a Mac OS link to their drivers download section, not a Mac OS X link as stated in the article title .

Syldaril.

currently they do have the advantage but the thing is that you can get 4 xeon chips and stick them on a dual xeon mobo ....

The point is, AMD’s architecture for SMP is superior to Intel’s offerings. Over 2 sockets, Intel’s platform starts to hit a brick wall, performance wise. AMD’s Opteron scales well up to 8 socket, and beyond. It's not a matter of how many CPUs you can cram on the platform, but how efficient that platform is with those CPUs.

i talked with Dell today, and there is a BIOS option for my PC. i asked if it was possible to install and the guy in india said it was possible if i had an Apple Mac OS CD. strange...

i talked with Dell today, and there is a BIOS option for my PC. i asked if it was possible to install and the guy in india said it was possible if i had an Apple Mac OS CD. strange...

What? Where is this "BIOS option"? Can you get it?

Could it be that these are just enhanced drivers to install on dell pc's running windows for use with printers plugged into macs and shared over a network?? I'm thinking this is not nearly as exciting as we'd like, but probably pretty boring...

Any word on Os9 being ported to x86? jk, tho, I sure do like that old Os

Could it be that these are just enhanced drivers to install on dell pc's running windows for use with printers plugged into macs and shared over a network?? I'm thinking this is not nearly as exciting as we'd like, but probably pretty boring...

I think we have already established that these are merely OS X drivers for Dell printers.

W/e. i dont really think apple is ever gonna let any other comptuer company run their os. Though it would make them richer, i dont think they want to turn out like microsoft, and start to have the quality of their products go down. The more people that have it, the cheeper things get as mass production takes place. Plus they will have to wright a whole {censored} load of new drivers for stupid windows based hardware, and those will have bugs after bugs. 353905823535 more viruses will be written for it....Its just a mess.

W/e. i dont really think apple is ever gonna let any other comptuer company run their os.

The fact the Steve Jobs let HP put their name on an Apple iPod, suggests to me that he is open to licensing OS X and it is Steve Jobs who I suspect would be the real barrier within Apple to doing this.

Though it would make them richer...

This means it is inevitable, money is a strong force.

Plus they will have to wright a whole {censored} load of new drivers for stupid windows based hardware...

This certainly is not true. They could force licensees to use the same specific hardware set which Apple uses.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...&os=MAC1&osl=EN

I think just another example of how screwed up Dell's websites are. That guy India probably had no idea what he was talking about (or was making a reference to OSx86 here).