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OSx86 Shutdown Rumors Explained
n.e.watson writes "The AP has run an article that addresses recent rumors on the internet about Apple Legal shutting down the OSx86 Project, with a statement from an OSx86 administrator. From the article: 'The OSx86 Project Web site stated Apple had served it with a notice on Thursday citing violations of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the site was reviewing all of its discussion forum postings as a result. The site has always aimed to adhere to copyright laws and is working with Apple to ensure no violations exist, according to a statement by the site administrator.'"
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
The real answer here is to run a real BSD or Linux. New Hampshire has it right, live free or die.
In the end, the free shall prevail.
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OSX cracked on intel
Works great here. Are you using a pirated OS?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
I guess you're the sort of person who believes that you can sell yourself into slavery? Or you have no recourse to sue a drunken doctor after a botched operation if you'd signed a no-sue waiver?
If I want to I'm going to:
So you think I should be able to do none of these things and just accept the shackles blindly?
My pics.
theft is theft
I suppose your car dealership tells you where you can drive your car too. (A Lexus isn't for off-roading!) BTW, how's the kool-aid?
And there are people with legitimate Intel OSX machines presently. Apple has no right to tell them they can't install Linux on said box and install their OS on a normal PC.
Given Apple's history of logic board failers, we can expect within the next year we'll have 30% of those PC's with blown main boards, so people with have OSX86 licenses without any hardware.
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"Apple's margin on iTMS purchases is, for all intents and purposes, zero. Not much profit there."
You're saying that with a billion dollars in revenue, they haven't been able to turn a good profit on iTMS. All it is is some servers and some software. It's not like they actually need to write the songs. They would need to be completely incompetent to not be able to make money on iTMS.
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