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Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard
akintayo writes "Digitimes reports that first-tier notebook manufacturers are increasing the standard installed memory from the current 1 GB to 4GB. They claim the move is an attempt to shore up the costs of DRAM chips, which are currently depressed because of a glut in market. The glut is supposedly due to increased manufacturing capacity and the slow adoption of Microsoft's Vista operating system. The proposed move is especially interesting, given that 32-bit Vista and XP cannot access 4 GB of memory. They have a practical 3.1 — 3.3 GB limit. With Vista SP1 it seems that Microsoft has decided to fix the problem by reporting the installed memory rather than the available memory."
Sooner or later, the OEMs will start offering 64-bit Vista on these machines...
Or maybe offer Linux or Solaris instead.
Wow, it's living proof that using a Mac makes you as dumb as a fucking stump.
It could have run on an x86 machine, until they specifically programming in a check. They felt that their profit margins are more important than my rights (yes Mac boy, legal rights) to run their OS anywhere I felt like.
Nobody here respects Microsoft when they say you aren't allowed to run their OSes in virtualization. They don't have the right to place those restrictions on use. Once they sell the product, they aren't involved.
Apple is saying the same thing. They sell you the OS, you own it and thus the right to run it anywhere for as long as you wish. But it's crippled to prevent this. You could do it, but Apple doesn't want you to and is willing to lessen the customer's experience in order to sell more computers.
Sure, it's what we expect them to do. They want to sell more, yes. We get that they want this and are allowed want this. But when they act more like Microsoft than Microsoft and *cripple* their own product just to spite creative users, what's the attraction supposed to be?
Apple's product checks for "legit" hardware, what happens if I want to run this in 10 years after my mac breaks? It'll check for authentic hardware and fail, where other OSes will work on an emulator.
Junk. Total unmitigated junk. And totally rectally attached fanboys.