Apple and Windows... Wow guess we should bring up politics next , NOT! It's about time fellas....
SIGNED Dean K2WW On Sat, May 2, 2020, 00:47 Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP <[email protected]> wrote: > Apple breaks it's OWN hardware when it wants you to buy a new computer. > I have a Macbook Pro from 2009 which won't run the latest MacOS. The > Macbook is still in very good condition, so I installed Ubuntu Linux on > it. It's like a new computer. > > 73, > Victor, 4X6GP > Rehovot, Israel > Formerly K2VCO > CWops no. 5 > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ > . > On 02/05/2020 2:45, M. George wrote: > > Ray, I'm sure you know this, but you are simply running each OS as a > > virtual machine using the Intel VT technology (not an Apple or Microsoft > > thing at all). The reason you can't run the Mac OS on standard Intel PC > > hard ware is due to Apple's super irritating proprietary ROM etc... > > hardware signatures... trickery. Apple goes to extreme lengths to ensure > > that their OS only will run on their hardware to lock you into buying > their > > hardware to use their OS. Folks will hack and get older versions of the > Mac > > OS working over time on non Apple PC hardware, but then a new Mac OS > update > > comes out and it then breaks running their OS on non Mac / Apple hardware > > (constant cat and mouse game). I'm not saying they should or shouldn't > do > > that, but that's just what they do. So yeah, you can run a Windows OS on > > your Mac hardware because #1, it's Intel based hardware and Apple finally > > adopted a standard intel based platform etc...years ago when they finally > > dumped the IBM Power PC cpu's and their terrible/horrible preemptive OS > at > > the time (amen! it saved Apple!). Jobs brought them back to the modern > OS > > era by going down the Free BSD OS path, virtually saving them from > > bankruptcy. (not to mention Microsoft investing 100+ million in Apple > back > > then to keep them alive) > > > > So yeah, on your Mac / Apple PC hardware, if you can't live without the > Mac > > OS and you are willing to pony up for the price of their hardware, you > can > > still run the later versions of the Mac OS and also run virtual versions > of > > Windows and or boot directly into Windows on your Mac hardware, because > > Microsoft doesn't lock their OS down to a specific manufactures Intel > based > > PC hardware. So don't thank Apple for running Windows on your Mac / > Apple > > hardware, thank Microsoft for keeping their OS pretty much hardware > > independent and not forcing you to run their OS on one company's > hardware! > > > > Those of us that use Windows as their primary OS, do the same thing as > > you... you can virtualize and run multiple copies of Windows and other > > operating systems at the same time like Linux etc... we have been doing > > that for years of course and yes, we can run hacked versions of the Mac > OS > > too if we want to continually fight Apple in their efforts to lock their > > Free BSD based OS release after release after release (serious irony that > > they used Free BSD in the beginning and still lock it to their hardware). > > > > At the end of the day, it's nice to have options and for there to be > > multiple competitors to provide us as consumers with better options and > > lower prices due to that competition. Let's all be glad that there are > > multiple consumer OS's out there so the companies compete against each > > other, not to mention the free versions of Linux too. Options are good! > > It drives competition, innovation and competitive pricing for the masses. > > > > Max NG7M > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
