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Posted on 06/16/2008 11:08:41 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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Personally I usually prefer VMware Fusion so I can run both concurrently, but there are some times when Windows really needs to talk to the hardware directly, and it does run marginally faster without the VM layer.
Apple is a hardware company. They make great hardware. They don't try to compete at the ultra-low end. They're smart, and they're making money hand over fist.
We will see a lot of this "Windows on Mac hardware" stuff.
You would see plenty of Windows computers running Mac/OS on a dual boot. But Apple doesn't permit this
It would put the little snots at Apple on the bread lines
There are millions and zillions of computers out there that can run an Apple/OS just as well as an Apple computer. Only thing holding them back is
a) It is against the law
b) Apple has the OS and motherboard BIOS rigged to make is very difficult to flawlessly run and update the Apple OS on standard computers
Dennis, Dennis, Dennis... you can't make a comment without a slur. Sad.
Your jealousy is unbecoming—those "little snots" have created the best operating system in the world. If you want to run OS X, BUY a Mac—even a used one—it'll work fine.
I really meant to say -— The precious little snots at Apple
And you know darn well why they are too chicken shit to allow anyone to buy their OS and put it on equipment they want
What has Apple ever done to you to earn such vile hatred? Did Steve jobs pee in your porridge? I am truly curious.
Any word on updated Macbook Pros? I looked up the new Centrino 2 chips on Wikipedia and it said in mid-July for those. How much after that before we can expect to see them in Macbook Pros? Any other design changes? I love the look of them now, but some changes here and there would be nice.
I'm a bit surprised Paul didn't swap out the hard drive himself in his old MacBook since it is readily accessible from the battery compartment. Perhaps it was an excuse to zip down to the Apple Store! ;-)
Just stating fact.
Maybe they’re just smart enough to know that an OS - any OS - is at its best when it’s running on a system it was designed to run on. I’ll take the quality of an Apple computer over the quality of an off-the-shelf PC any day.
And by the way, facts do not contain invective or ad hominem attacks.
Just sayin’....
Oh woe! Would if they only have the enlightened licensing/upgrade policies of MSFT!!! LOL.
So that they could end up with the computing wonderland that is Microsoft?
Dude, that's funny!
You may find Microsoft's model chaotic and confusing, but what do you think the hardware market and would look like if everone used Apple's methodology?
My view of Microsoft is that they tried to own the entire market, and the market repudiated them. They were done in by their own greed and Byzantine marketing schemes.
Apple went their own way, with the idea that 'if you build it they will come'. I did- I've been using Macs pretty much exclusively since 1981. I can make my way around a PC, but it's so unpleasant that I go out of my way to avoid it.
It's my considered opinion that Microsoft has irretrievably lost. They're not going to go away, per se, but the consumer market has no use for them anymore.
And that's a good thing.
What do you thing the hardware market will start to look like if everyone adopts Apple's development and marketing model, and will that be a good thing?
Reminding myself....
Reminding myself....
Well, yeah, apple doesn’t want to spend all it’s time and energy making sure OSX works with hardware configurations that changes at the drop of a hat. Apple feels the only way they can provide an excellent operating system is to have complete control over the the core hardware system.
Every Operating System has it’s limits, from mainframes to palms. XP runs on everything and is easy to use but it’s bloated, insecure and unstable. Linux runs on everything but it has an horrible UI and not that easy to set up. OSX is secure, stable, easy, beautiful UI but you can only run it on Mac Hardware.
The question is what trade offs do you want to make.
Did you forget you already reminded yourself? :)
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