Dell Wants to Sell OSX PCs
By Jim Louderback

I recently spent a day at Dell's Austin headquarters, and ended up with a conversation with Michael Dell – which I recorded. He does the usual CEO two step, but also revealed some interesting facts – including how he'd really like to sell PCs and laptops running OSX.

You can hear all about it in a special version of my What's New Now podcast – after the interview, my usual crew discusses, dissects and predicts Dell's future.

JPT62089: I sure hope they will never sell Mac OS X on their PCs... I think it would ruin the whole "Mac" feel to it!

Heh... Dell must be worried silly with Apple running on Intel.

The only differentiator that they have is price, and they can only shave so much from their razor thin margins.

IMHO, Dell is not really a computer company, its a supply-chain company in the mold of Walmart.

This is perfectly good for commodity items where price is the only real concern. And when Apple was running on PPC, it was a fine biz model with Dell slapping their competitors silly.

Apple completely changes the game with Windows-capable Macs, and Dell has no real counter attack for it.

R&D? Can you name one original Dell innovation outside their super-efficient supply chain?