I was ignoring this thread, but this I could not let pass.
> On 8/30/08, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > >There is a deep injustice when an Intel Mac buyer can > >install Winblowz yet we are not allowed to install > >an Apple OS on PC equipment. > and yet, you insist this isn't about cheap kit? It's not about Apple missing a market segment or somehow losing out to linux (hah!): it's all about being able to run an OS designed for a specific set of tightly-controlled hardware on any cheap rubbish. If you can explain why Apple would want to forego the nice markups they earn from hardware sales while incurring the cost of supporting all kinds of commodity junk, maybe you have a case. But everything I have heard so far (and if this thread has been going on for months, how has this not become obvious?) tells me this all boils down to not paying for Apple-branded hardware and I suspect not paying for the additional support hassles all that mismatched junk will create. If nothing else, the example you cite above explains why Apple does things the ways it does: windows will run on a specific set of hardware (gee, I wonder if Apple made that possible on purpose?) but OS X is not guaranteed to run on whatever the bargain of the week is 6 months from now. -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <paulbeard.org> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
