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Posted on 04/14/2008 8:45:24 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
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Yup. Looks like someone ate a Ives-designed iTorpedo from Apple legal.
24 used Mac's inside of "CTU". I've seen them on a number of shows and movies. And you are right, Mac's are huge with creative folks. For photo's and video production, Mac is typically the weapon of choice.
I like when they don’t have permission to show the logo. The set designers get pretty creative in ways to block the logo from the shot. It is amazing how often in movies someone opens a laptop on a table with something that just happens to go as high as the logo and be just as wide.
Just for comparison, a mac Mini fully spec’d out:
2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB memory
160GB hard drive (largest you can get - it’s a 2.5”)
is $949. The case is 1/10th the size.
Product placement is a big advertising business, and Apple uses it extensively.
On my intel based MacBookPro I run a program called Parallels. It allows me to run the mac OS and Windows XP at the same time. I understand that I can lso run Linux if I want but since I have no use for it I’ve never looked into it. I a few pieces of software that require XP to run otherwise I’d never would’ve worried about it.
< /noseouttajoint >
Its cause most all his movies are the FUTURE !!
= D
That right there was enough to discredit this story...
Most of the components are the same. Apple chooses good components and packages them better than most PC builders. And I don't just mean pretty boxes -- cooling and accessibility for upgrades are stellar on tower Macs, and they have a lot of small touches that add up to improved usability. If you've ever compared a Sony Vaio to a low-end PC, you know what I'm talking about.
Leopard is a Unix variant
Sort of. It runs on a Unix (BSD) kernel. Apple combined elements of BSD and other Unixes into an open-source OS it calls Darwin. Then it added layers of user interface, APIs and such that aren't open source to create OS X.
like Linux?
Linux is not a Unix variant. Linux is a home-grown alternative to Unix; once upon a time, calling something a Unix meant an expensive and annoying process of getting it certified by Bell Labs. Who owns the IP behind Unix is pretty much a mess, as the whole SCO debacle illustrates.
Could I repartition a Mac hard drive and run a version of Linux?
Yes. As others have mentioned, you can boot to it or run it in a virtual machine.
or repartition a Windows hard drive and run Leopard? I mean at least theoretically, assuming there wasn't some code that either had the hardware check tho op sys or the op sys check the hardware.
Not without hacking OS X and violating the EULA. And I think there is some kind of hardware check, but I don't know the details.
Is it a question of the Mac having a different BIOS or chip set?
That's certainly part of the equation.
Also, setting aside the question of whether MACs basic applications are superior, are the pros/advantages of Leopard mostly related to its UNIX base
In part. It also has what many (including me) consider to be the best user interface on a desktop computer. And it's not that easy to set aside the basic applications, because part of the appeal of the Mac is how smoothly integrated the hardware, the OS and the apps are.
and thus Linux would share those advantages or does it have distinct advantages over the best Linux distributions?
Linux isn't nearly as easy to set up right out of the box, and the user interface is clunky by comparison. XWindows doesn't come close. Some companies like gOS have put a more appealing face on Linux, but it still doesn't have the fit and finish of Mac OS.
Agreed. I don't think Apple will crack down on the little guys and little sites hacking OS X to run on non-Apple hardware; the more people use a sort-of, kind-of Mac, the more interested they're likely to become in a no-compromises version. At least that's true of hobbyists who go in with both eyes open and know that they're applying a kludge and can expect no support.
Folks buying a turnkey Mac "clone," on the other hand, are more likely to think that it's actually a Mac, and when it isn't stable or upgradeable, more likely to be turned off by the Mac altogether.
All that aside, I know that in some areas of intellectual property, you can lose your IP rights if you don't make a good faith effort to enforce them. I don't know if the courts have ever applied that to a EULA, but it's possible that failing to enforce it here would be a first step to it being considered unenforceable later.
Ditto to all of the above on my Mini. i haven't run across anything Windows-only for a while; all I use Parallels for is checking Web pages in Windows browsers.
Popular Science (the “robot soldier” cover) this month refers to the use of the ASUS EE (that model you told me about last year) as a Mac OS clone. There’s a few websites listed. I do not, alas, have the copy I was reading here at, uh, work. ;’)
Ehh, I wouldn't go that far.
It's nice and light and portable -- like a Macbook Air -- and inexpensive -- like a Mac Mini. It's got great wireless internet reception.
But the user interface is nowhere near as fancy as the Mac's.
It ships with Linux, buuuuuut:
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/11/12654/
this is also eee related:
http://www.popsci.com/article/2007-12/big-os-small-pc
http://www.popsci.com/article/2007-12/hacking-your-eee-pc
unrelated:
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8580
Looks like they were down but now they're back up with a renamed product... Instead of OpenMac it's now the Open Computer...
Sorry, Martin, but I found the thread before I found your note to me... so I credited Bloody Sam for posting it...
Kudos also to Martin_Fierro for a ping about the thread...
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