Mike Kauspedas wrote:
Wrong again. Just because you can use *some* PC parts in a Mac means
nothing. Sure the PCI and AGP slot specs are the same, but there's
much more to it than that. If there wasn't, there wouldn't be all
those "flashed-for-Mac" Radeon video cards floating around.
Apparently you haven't been around Macs (or PC's for that matter)
long enough, or you would know that most PCI and AGP cards as well as
most optical drives have something called "firmware" onboard. The
firmware is what the OS/chipset interfaces with when using the
hardware in order to do something with it. If the OS/chipset and the
devices firmware can't "talk" to each other, it don't work. Hard
drives are pretty much "OS-agnostic" these days, as well as RAM, but
that's not the case for most other devices such as the previously
mentioned optical drives, AGP cards, PCI cards, ATA cards,
USB/Firewire cards, and more. If the the device doesn't have the
right firmware, or can't be "flashed" for the right firmware, then
it's just not gonna work in a Mac. So, I guess Macs are more unique
in hardware than you think.
JR
Wow, because of your assault on my intelligence and your personal
insults I totally understand! Yes I know about firmware, but firmware
is software. The hardware is still the same. Hence not unique. Thanks
for proving my point :)
-Mike
Sorry you see my comments as "personal insults", as that certainly isn't
what I intended. However you implied in your original post that any
hardware from a PC will automatically work in a Mac, and that simply
isn't so. That was the point that *I* was trying to make. And yes, I'm
well aware that firmware is simply software, however someone has to
write that software and make it available, as well as the appropriate
flashing utility. It doesn't matter if the actual hardware is the same,
if you can't change the firmware. Tell all the Mac gamers out there that
wish they could use all those fast AGP cards that PC's can currently
use, that "it's only software". I'm sure they'll find a lot consolation
in that! The problem is that the OEM's don't feel that it's worth the
effort to write the different firmware as well as the flashing utility
for the Mac OS/chipset, as they don't see where there will be enough
return on the investment.
So I don't see how I "proved" your point at all.
JR
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