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Which Company Did Steve Jobs Ask To Build OSX-based Laptops?

IBM
Dell
Hewlett-Packard
Sony

Answer: Sony

Although Steve Jobs believed strongly in a closed eco-system for Apple wherein they would maintain complete control over their hardware development and deployment, he had a soft spot in his heart for one particular hardware line: Sony’s VAIO laptops.

In 2001, Jobs approached Sony executive Kunitake Ando with one of Sony’s VAIO notebooks with an as-of-then unreleased version of OS X running on an Intel platform to demonstrate how well it ran.

If not for constraints within the VAIO department, the project would have progressed, and when Intel-compatible versions of OS X rolled out years later, they would have been on VAIO laptops.

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Undersea Communication Cables Are Buried To Protect Them From?

Crabs Landslides
Pistol Shrimp Sharks

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Aztec Kings Wore Cloaks Made From What Unusual Material?

The Old King's Skin Asbestos Fibers
Finely Woven Incan Gold Hummingbird Pelts

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The Jedi Archives Are Modeled After Which Earth-Based Library?

The Library of Congress Trinity College Library
Strahov Philosophical Hall Boston Copley Public Library

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Moon Dust Smells Like?

Vinegar Old Books
Mulch Gunpowder

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Ben Franklin Wasn’t Just A U.S. Founding Father, But The Founder Of Modern?

Figure Skating Street Sweeping
Topiary Design Golf

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The 1999 Ig Nobel Prize For Literature Was Awarded To A 5,000 Word Treatise On The Topic Of?

Brewing Tea Dropping Toast
Inseminating Bats Weighing Bovine Flatulence

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Coffee Breaks First Appeared At A Company Located In?

London, England Jakarta, Indonesia
Buffalo, New York Rome, Italy

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Which Movie Featured A Different Ending Depending On Which Theater You Saw It In?

Clue Groundhog Day
Inception The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Rather Than Buy Locally, It’s Cheaper To Fly Roundtrip From Australia To The US For What?

The Beatles Ultimate Box Set The Xbox One
Windows 8 Adobe Creative Suite

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The Wheel Wasn’t First Used For Transportation But?

Pottery Mechanical Gates
Milling Water Pumping