It's been a long time since I've upgraded a Mac, to be honest. I don't use them as much as my Linux and Windows systems. If OS X is bad in that respect, that doesn't make Windows any better, though.
If it's a matter of wanting OS X and seeing a two-for-one deal on OS X and Windows, then that really lowers the "but I have this package that only runs on Windows" barrier.
I'd say people who just want Windows wouldn't buy a Mac, because they can get that elsewhere. People who'd like to have both are more likely now to buy a higher-end Mac instead of skimping on a Mac and buying a separate Windows PC as well.
I think the biggest issue with Apple and market segments is that they only want boutique-style profits and won't go into a units-shipped pissing contest at a few dollars a box. If they're able to get 70% of the market without cutting their margins, I'm sure they'd be happy with that.
There's actually a good reason to run Linux exclusively on certain Macs. Older Macs that are no longer supported by Apple software updates are (for now anyway) still supported by some Linux distros. In particular, my PPC iMac. Heck, I have OS X on my G4 Power Mac, but I can't get a processor that supports Leopard for it. Eventually I'll have to buy a new Mac just to have a recent OS X on it.
Debian, openSuse, Fedora, T2, Yellow Dog, and more support my hardware and offer security fixes. Apple doesn't.
I wouldn't wipe out OS X on a newer Mac for any other OS, but on older ones it makes sense. On a newer Mac that's still supported by Apple, I'd only install alongside OS X instead of in place of it.
You might want to look that one up. They're typically not an alternative to a single desktop. If you mean small-form-factor PCs (SFF) or compact PCs, it'd probably be clearer to say so. A minicomputer is not an SFF PC.
Well, it depends on the crash. You're talking about something with plumbing, moving parts, and electricity that tends to have metal in its construction and as part of its load. I've seen dishwashers just stop working, but I've also seen them flood a kitchen or catch a house on fire. Most computers fail in a way that doesn't threaten the structure they are in, but there are exceptions to that, too.
The main difference between a dishwasher and a computer, though, is the level of flexibility. A certain level of flexibility demands a certain level of complexity.
It's easier to port from Windows to OS X on Intel than from Windows to OS X on PPC, too. Also, as far as game developers are concerned anyway, XP and Vista are already two similar yet different platforms. If they're planning portability between those two, it makes the game easier to port to a third. The second platform is always the hardest part of portability.
Nah. Some of us remember when the Apple II+ was the one cool new thing. Even more remember when that kick-ass SuperBowl commercial announced the launch of the original Macintosh. The cool Apple thing I'm really wanting a reprise on is the Newton. The iPod Touch and the iPhone are just too small to be proper tablets.
My local Best Buy has a Linux section. It's small, and it's only retail shrinkwrap software boxes rather than desktops with the OS preinstalled. It's certainly there, though.
My main gripe with Ubuntu Studio is that the last time I tried to install it, there was still not response in the installer to my USB keyboard. Do I need to have a PS/2 keyboard to install it?
For that matter, the same basic technique works on Windows, but the hosts file is %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (which usually works out to C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). Windows has some drawbacks, but certain things really are easy.
Must be those restore CDs from the store-bought PC package. Those are pretty much putting in the disk, letting it hose your data, end up with crapware from your builder, delete crapware, find drivers just for your additional or upgraded hardware, and install all those apps that didn't come with the system. Much simpler than installing Windows from a retail package, but still no picnic.
To be fair, I usually tweak which applications are on my Linux boxes, too. For example, I have Opera, Firefox 3, and Adobe's FlashPlayer added to this one. My distro has Firefox updated to the current 2.0.0.16 but I had to put 3 and 3.0.1 on by myself. I also added a newer Perl in a separate directory. I never mess with the distro's Perl and let that update with the package manager, but I usually want a newer version for my stuff. Everything else either installed with the distro or was available in the repository.
Since SCO and Novell both had real lawyers who thought they were on the winning side of these arguments, I don't think it's fair to judge PJ too harshly for only being partly right with limited information.
Every BSD is a separate distro with their own way of doing things. Linux distros use the same kernel as a starting point, but are separate distros. Debian is consistent with Debian just as much as FreeBSD is consistent with FreeNSD.
Also, if your distro and your application are both LSB, then you should have few issues.
That's one of the things people often overlook it seems. An Apple workstation (because the Mac Pro is far from just a business desktop, after all) is built with what many people consider server parts. They have nice dual-socket motherboards, use Xeon processors, and spec decent RAM.
Once upon a time they only sold Kingston RAM in their machines, but I'm not sure if that's still the case. Kingston isn't the performance mogul that OCZ or Corsair tend to be, but their stuff generally isn't slow and is pretty darn reliable in my experience. It certainly isn't the cheap bargain-basement memory some PC companies ship.
I'm not afraid to admit that one of my home machines has a PC Chips motherboard in it, because although they don't build for performance they're pretty reliable, IME, for the bargain boards. I could easily compare the price of that board to the price of the board in a Mac Pro, but it just wouldn't be a fair comparison. When I want a bargain basement board I'll buy one, but I'm not going to delude myself into thinking it's just as good as a $200 board.
So I guess your point is that they had permission to use the interface work, or did they just pay up once it was noticed? They still sued Microsoft over Windows looking like Mac OS (which it barely at all did).
We are no longer the knights who say, "The force is what holds the universe together", we are now the knights who say, "The force is a genetically passed talent that sometimes is passed through mothers and sometimes through fathers, and is focused through bacteria-like subsections of your cells called "mitochonri-errr, I mean midiclorians".
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It's been a long time since I've upgraded a Mac, to be honest. I don't use them as much as my Linux and Windows systems. If OS X is bad in that respect, that doesn't make Windows any better, though.
If it's a matter of wanting OS X and seeing a two-for-one deal on OS X and Windows, then that really lowers the "but I have this package that only runs on Windows" barrier.
I'd say people who just want Windows wouldn't buy a Mac, because they can get that elsewhere. People who'd like to have both are more likely now to buy a higher-end Mac instead of skimping on a Mac and buying a separate Windows PC as well.
I think the biggest issue with Apple and market segments is that they only want boutique-style profits and won't go into a units-shipped pissing contest at a few dollars a box. If they're able to get 70% of the market without cutting their margins, I'm sure they'd be happy with that.
There's actually a good reason to run Linux exclusively on certain Macs. Older Macs that are no longer supported by Apple software updates are (for now anyway) still supported by some Linux distros. In particular, my PPC iMac. Heck, I have OS X on my G4 Power Mac, but I can't get a processor that supports Leopard for it. Eventually I'll have to buy a new Mac just to have a recent OS X on it.
Debian, openSuse, Fedora, T2, Yellow Dog, and more support my hardware and offer security fixes. Apple doesn't.
I wouldn't wipe out OS X on a newer Mac for any other OS, but on older ones it makes sense. On a newer Mac that's still supported by Apple, I'd only install alongside OS X instead of in place of it.
mini-computers
You might want to look that one up. They're typically not an alternative to a single desktop. If you mean small-form-factor PCs (SFF) or compact PCs, it'd probably be clearer to say so. A minicomputer is not an SFF PC.
IBM still sells servers, and x86 servers were part of the stats.
Well, it depends on the crash. You're talking about something with plumbing, moving parts, and electricity that tends to have metal in its construction and as part of its load. I've seen dishwashers just stop working, but I've also seen them flood a kitchen or catch a house on fire. Most computers fail in a way that doesn't threaten the structure they are in, but there are exceptions to that, too.
The main difference between a dishwasher and a computer, though, is the level of flexibility. A certain level of flexibility demands a certain level of complexity.
There's actually quite a bit of behavioral overlap between geeks and artists. The activities to which they apply those behaviors just tend to differ.
It's easier to port from Windows to OS X on Intel than from Windows to OS X on PPC, too. Also, as far as game developers are concerned anyway, XP and Vista are already two similar yet different platforms. If they're planning portability between those two, it makes the game easier to port to a third. The second platform is always the hardest part of portability.
Nah. Some of us remember when the Apple II+ was the one cool new thing. Even more remember when that kick-ass SuperBowl commercial announced the launch of the original Macintosh. The cool Apple thing I'm really wanting a reprise on is the Newton. The iPod Touch and the iPhone are just too small to be proper tablets.
My local Best Buy has a Linux section. It's small, and it's only retail shrinkwrap software boxes rather than desktops with the OS preinstalled. It's certainly there, though.
My main gripe with Ubuntu Studio is that the last time I tried to install it, there was still not response in the installer to my USB keyboard. Do I need to have a PS/2 keyboard to install it?
For that matter, the same basic technique works on Windows, but the hosts file is %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (which usually works out to C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). Windows has some drawbacks, but certain things really are easy.
Not just SATA, but SCSI too... what? Yes, some people still use it.
Also, the most brain-dead driver for a newly installed OS to be missing is the network driver, which almost always is.
Must be those restore CDs from the store-bought PC package. Those are pretty much putting in the disk, letting it hose your data, end up with crapware from your builder, delete crapware, find drivers just for your additional or upgraded hardware, and install all those apps that didn't come with the system. Much simpler than installing Windows from a retail package, but still no picnic.
To be fair, I usually tweak which applications are on my Linux boxes, too. For example, I have Opera, Firefox 3, and Adobe's FlashPlayer added to this one. My distro has Firefox updated to the current 2.0.0.16 but I had to put 3 and 3.0.1 on by myself. I also added a newer Perl in a separate directory. I never mess with the distro's Perl and let that update with the package manager, but I usually want a newer version for my stuff. Everything else either installed with the distro or was available in the repository.
Since SCO and Novell both had real lawyers who thought they were on the winning side of these arguments, I don't think it's fair to judge PJ too harshly for only being partly right with limited information.
Such as replacing all the blasters with walkie-talkies?
Ah. I'd read the fable a number of times, but I didn't make the connection from your nick to that particular cow. Cool.
Every BSD is a separate distro with their own way of doing things. Linux distros use the same kernel as a starting point, but are separate distros. Debian is consistent with Debian just as much as FreeBSD is consistent with FreeNSD.
Also, if your distro and your application are both LSB, then you should have few issues.
This was ISO before OOXML.
That's one of the things people often overlook it seems. An Apple workstation (because the Mac Pro is far from just a business desktop, after all) is built with what many people consider server parts. They have nice dual-socket motherboards, use Xeon processors, and spec decent RAM.
Once upon a time they only sold Kingston RAM in their machines, but I'm not sure if that's still the case. Kingston isn't the performance mogul that OCZ or Corsair tend to be, but their stuff generally isn't slow and is pretty darn reliable in my experience. It certainly isn't the cheap bargain-basement memory some PC companies ship.
I'm not afraid to admit that one of my home machines has a PC Chips motherboard in it, because although they don't build for performance they're pretty reliable, IME, for the bargain boards. I could easily compare the price of that board to the price of the board in a Mac Pro, but it just wouldn't be a fair comparison. When I want a bargain basement board I'll buy one, but I'm not going to delude myself into thinking it's just as good as a $200 board.
So I guess your point is that they had permission to use the interface work, or did they just pay up once it was noticed? They still sued Microsoft over Windows looking like Mac OS (which it barely at all did).
I spotted one of the black wire mesh ones mounted on 4x4 posts as an umbrella over some flowers that like partial shade in rural Illinois.
To keep people from eating the proverbial cow.
Oh, BTW... Beef, it's what's for dinner.
We are no longer the knights who say, "The force is what holds the universe together", we are now the knights who say, "The force is a genetically passed talent that sometimes is passed through mothers and sometimes through fathers, and is focused through bacteria-like subsections of your cells called "mitochonri-errr, I mean midiclorians".