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To: HAL9000; antiRepublicrat

It’s good evidence but it’s not good enough for support by mass market products. There are differences, whether or not those differences cause problem with 3rd Party Software X is unknown until 3rd Party Software maker runs some tests, until they run those tests they’d be dumb to say it’s supported. It’s the basic math of mass market software, never say you support this environment until you say it with confidence, to say it with confidence means sinking man hours into testing it. There probably is nothing there that will cause a problem for 95% of the software out there, but if you’re in the 5% and you didn’t test it first and find that out you’re opening a big bag of worms if you say you support it. Again look at AMD, a lot of companies added verbiage specifically about supporting Intel processors when AMD first started hitting, not because AMD was necessarily bad or different but because nobody was sure their stuff worked on AMD, then AMD got enough momentum that they decided to do the testing, then it worked, then they dropped the verbiage.


88 posted on 11/08/2007 2:41:11 PM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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To: discostu; HAL9000
Again look at AMD

Again look at reality. There is no difference in processors, no difference in chipsets, and now that HAL9000 has told me that the EFI has BIOS support, no effective difference in the BIOS. What you are saying is the equivalent of me telling people don't buy HP computers because most software companies have not specifically tested their software specifically on HP computers.

I can't imagine calling up support for some software you bought at Best Buy and having the operator say "Sorry, we don't support MegaPaintX on HP computers, only on Dell and Gateway."

The idea is ludicrous with the exception of those very niche packages that only get support on specific approved systems (and then you usually buy the software and hardware as a package anyway). And the problem is still industry-wide, not just for Apple.

94 posted on 11/09/2007 10:15:45 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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