Maybe on the other hand people may stop purchasing apple (Mac Pro workstation equivalent) computers because the customers who do have the tech know how or high-end enough requirements - music and video editors etc. will be buying off the shelf components and building hackintoshes? Maybe in the future we will see officially sanctioned MacOS X for hardware of your choice, and just IOS remaining exclusive to the apple hardware...
On 28 November 2011 16:15, Ray Packham <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it me or is it getting to the stage where people may not purchase apple > computers simply because you cannot upgrade themselves (easily anyhow). Are > apple designing themselves into a cul-de-sac ? food for thought... those > who are used to just plugging in a new hard drive and formatting it may > well shy away from Apple in the future, i don't know but it may happen... > > regards Ray > > On 28 Nov 2011, at 16:08, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > > You won't be able to upgrade the hard drive on a new iMac, not easily at > least. They have a temperature sensor which, although present on other OEM > drives, generally isn't 100% compatible so the fans ramp up to full as a > failsafe. > > There is HDD Fan Control, http://www.hddfancontrol.com/, which will keep > the fans at a normal speed based on the hard drive's SMART status. That > should allow you to put any hard drive into the iMac. > > RAM is much easier and cheaper if you buy from crucial.com/uk, they do > free next-day delivery. > > Regards > > Sam > MacAmbulance > > Providing affordable Apple & PC services > > Sam Mullen > 07747 778022 > http://www.macambulance.co.uk > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
