It is really funny. I'm not the only one waiting for some explanation from you about this. You've made it clear you don't understand how hardware works. You seem to think there is magic dust in there and it just works.
It ran just a like a normal copy would run. As for my Windows, nope, all legal, through beta programs, MSDN, our Campus Agreement and my Dell. I have 100% legal copies of Microsoft Windows and Office. I've called Apple support before, they all but hang up the phone on me. I was trying to get more information on when Safari would begin would work Kerberos Authentication. They guy didn't know what that was, and basically told me he couldn't help me, and there wasn't anybody there that could. We have a reasonable size contract with Apple, so I was fairly surprised by that. On the other side, when we called Microsoft regarding an issue we were having with file sharing across PAT they were working directly with us and Cisco to determine what the problem was and help us get it working. Turns out it was a Cisco problem, Cisco said they would get around to it at some point while MS provided us with what we need to get it working. If I call dell, I tell them what broke, and they ship me a new one, I ship the old one back, and then Dell pays me $50 for a desktop, $60 for a Laptop, or $80 for a server because I saved them money by them not having to send a Tech. One time I had a memory chip throwing single bit failures I called dell, told them what was going on, within 2 hours I had 8 new sticks of memory and a new riser card. Your support contract with Dell includes support for the OS if you bought the OS from Dell. If I call dell with a problem, and they determine it needs to be escalated up to Microsoft, Dell hot transfers me to a MS rep, and stays on the line while we get things worked out. I'd like to see you actually post sources instead of making up numbers. You've done that in this and many other threads. You just pull numbers out of your head and expect people to believe them. You can download the pirated copy, and you can make it work, it isn't just a pop in the disk and look it works, its close. Home users aren't going to go around looking for pirated operating systems and risk blowing away their family photos. Businesses aren't going to do it because they put them selves in big legal trouble should something come up. The people that are going to do it, are those interested in security and other trends. People who want to do it just to see if it can be done. I'm not the only one asking the question, others have asked it also, you refuse to answer them because you don't know. You've backed yourself into a hole that you don't know how to get out of so you have nothing left to do but call me an idiot. We've come to something you don't understand so instead of owning up to it, you make up numbers and call me a dirt clod and say I should go get some cookies from my mom. I've been doing this for a long time, I've used a lot of different computers and I have a pretty good idea how things should run. The funny thing is, I'm not even offended by your comments. If you could think of something to say to refute my claims you would, instead you ignore them and call me stupid. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave l [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 8:52 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: New MacBook Pro 15! > > damn dude, why argue? You basically are saying you are right and you dont > even own a mac and I am wrong and I do own a mac. > > Talking to you is like talking to a dirt clod, go get some "actual" > experience on a real mac then come argue. If your pirated & hacked version > of os x was anywhere close to working like a real one then it would be > everywhere, all over and everyone would be doing it. Instead while almost > every pc company is having very little or negative growth Apple is > thriving 20-40% higher than everyone else. So now why would they all go do > that if they could just dl a pirated cracked copy? I bet your windows is > pirated as well. > > And until you can speak with a an educated tongue then just don't speak at > all, go into the other room and eat cookies with your mom or something. > > > some quotes i found i think pertain. first one reminds me of this guy... > > " > > Apple may indeed have a plan for a future, gradual transition to an all- > software company, but chances are that will be ruined by all the idiots > out there who want everything, but don't want to pay for anything. > > When you buy a Mac, you don't just buy hardware and you don't just buy > software. When you buy a Mac you are also buying customer service. > > A Dell might be cheaper, but you get what you pay for. Try calling Dell > customer service. They'll blame the problem on the software. Talk to > Microsoft, they'll blame the problem on the hardware. If you ever need to > call Apple with a problem, they are intelligent, speak English fluently > and don't pass the blame to another company. > > Part of the stability advantage that Apple has over Windows and even Linux > is that Apple controls the hardware configuration of each of it's systems > from start to finish. Apple does not substitute one brand of DVD-ROM drive > for another. For instance, if a business buys five Macs (all iBooks for > example). All 5 machines are exactly the same configuration, all of them > will have exactly the same brand and model of DVD-ROM/RW, etc drive. On > Dell, HP, IBM, Gateway, eMachines, etc, if you order 5 laptops of exactly > the same model and configuration, the first laptop might have a Sony > branded DVD drive, the next will have a Toshiba brand DVD, the third will > have a LITE-ON brand DVD, the fourth will have a Panasonic/Matsushita DVD, > and the last laptop will have a Samsung DVD drive. This means that Windows > or Linux needs to have a massive IDE controller driver database loaded > upon boot. The iBook/MacBook does not need this. The fewer drivers in > MacOS means the OS runs much leaner, using less memory and less potential > for errant drivers to cause serious problems for the user. If Apple starts > licensing OS X to third party CPU vendors, it will need to develop MacOS > to have a massive driver database. This will lessen the stability of the > system software and may compromise the quality of the user experience with > MacOS. > " > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. 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