You made me chuckle. 2009/1/2 Wallace Adrian D'Alessio <[email protected]>: > > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> At 12:43 PM -0500 1/2/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >>> > At 11:40 AM -0500 1/2/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >>>>>Apple Mac hardware utilizing Intel chips is optimized for Mac OS X. >>>> >>>> The hardware is NOT optimized for Mac OS X. The SOFTWARE is >>>> optimized for the hardware, sortof. Most of the Operating System, >>>> drivers, etc, are written in a generic HOL (higher order language). >>>> 98% of the optimizations come from the HOL compiler (be it C, C++, >>>> Objective C, Java, etc). *Maybe* 2% are from developer choices, to >>>> take advantage of a specific feature of the hardware. That's why >>>> it's so easy to port OS X to different platforms... PowerPC, Intel >>>> Core, ARM,... >>>> >>>>>OS X was originally authored on Intel developer machines long before an >>>>>Intel mac was first sold to an end user. >>>> >>> > OS X was *ported* to Intel, not "authored". >>> >>>So, just that I may understand this assertion in light of the opinion >>>held here by many that Apple computer hardware is the cream of the >>>computer crop comparable to Mercedes Benz automobiles in quality >> >> There's not much in a x86 Mac that's "special". Most of it is >> off-the-shelf parts. The desktops are high-quality (lowest repair >> rate in the industry). The laptops are ... sigh (highest repair rate >> in the industry). >> >>>you are saying Apple did NOT design the motherboard architecture to >>>run OS X as well or better than any other hardware? Say it ain't so >>>Dan! >> >> What could they do to "fit" the system to the OS? Intel controls >> most of it now - they provide most of the chips and specify how >> everything interconnects etc. This isn't the old days, when Apple >> put a bunch of custom chips on the board. Think about it -- when you >> slap WIndoze on an x86 Mac, what doesn't work? Now look at the >> hackintosh projects, running OS X on generic PC hardware FASTER than >> on x86 Macs... >> > > > Oh , please , please Dan, Don't burst our Mac as Mercedes premium > grade hardware bubble. > {gasp!} that would mean the only thing keeping it from being a ( > horrors!) PC is the badge and the OS! Thank god you won't tell me > that a low down PC hardware company like ( aauugghh!) ASUS makes the > motherboards. That would be just TOO much to bear! > > > >
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