It's not a question of reliability but rather a question of easy of use and hardware configuration.
On the mac, you don't have to worry about IRQs, DMA conflicts or Input/Output ranges.
I did not switch just because of OS X (although it had something to do with it) but also because of the fact that open firmware allows me to boot off an external USB or Firewire drive.
The hardware design has elegance whereas PC's look like frankenstien monsters which will break if you try to add another network card.
You obviously are not a developer. Having existing technology does not mean you can just slap together another product with it. You have to come up with a design, code it and test it. The development cycle of this product was expensive relative to the price.
Unlike KDE, Gnome is free
Translation : GPL is freerer than LGPL. LGPL allows corporations like Novell
and Sun to have propeitry forks and lock away their changes from the user. Now
that Novell has taken over Ximian you can expect Gnome to get put under
corpirate lock. With KDE you have the choice, you either PAY UP or pay with
your source code.
I guess you don't want commercial apps like Photoshop then for linux?
As for the rest of your comments I don't want to feed any trolls.:)
BTW. My mac has a three button mouse. It's a logitec USB optical scroll mouse.
Dude, I'm a programmer on windows and linux. I understand how X works. Unfortunately, X is very limited in the Toolkit you have available so you have to choose either the Gnome or KDE toolkits.
I'm not just looking at this from a programmers point of view but as a user aswell. Linux needs to standardize on on window manager and GUI toolkit if they are going to succeed.
User's don't give a damn about having a lot of choices. They want to to just work and to be compatible/interoperable.
You hit the nail on the head. If linux is ever to succeed on the desktop, the distros will have to agree upon one common set of libraries and a common default window manager. I personally don't see that happening any time soon so Windows will continue to rule and the only viable alternative for the desktop with commercial apps is OS X. Perhaps OS X will achieve a 10-15% market share as people get tired of waiting for longhorn over the next few years.
Commercial Apps must be able to run in binary form on all major distros if linux is to gain any significant marketshare on the desktop.
Except that you did not purchase the original store bought copy. There is nothing wrong with making a backup copy of something you purchased.
Let me explain it to you very slowly. Duplicating a song that you do not own a copy of is theft.
How much did that $475 box really cost you? How much is your time worth? Many people hire maids because they are busy and their free time is valuable to them, not because they could not clean their place themselves. What happens when it breaks? No warranty on the entire unit. Good luck on getting warranty replacement on the parts.
If you take TCO into consideration and peace of mind/lack of frustration, macs are cheap.
Why would Apple be interested in a technology designed to lock-in users to Microsoft? There is no incentive for them to do this. I don't see Apple abandoning Open firmware for some TCPA enabled Bios. That would be a step backwards since Open firmware provides more functionality than the Phoenix TCPA enabled bios does.
This type of thinking is folly. Every outsourcing project the company I work for has done so far has been an utter failure.
Outsourcing does not work except for a few cases and adding a language barrier impedes the process of software development even further.
I think that it's unlikely they will backport it when they could have used the Jaguar libs to begin with and chose not to.
They backported iChat AV and iCal to name two. They did not use Jaguar libs because of the performance increase the Panther libs would provide on Panther.
They had been saying all along they were going to support Jaguar. Confirmed by @stake? I thought they were the ones that found the bug. What motivation would they have to be impartial when they can generate more publicity for themselves with sensationalism. I see nowhere where Apple said they would not release an update for Jaguar.
"It's a pretty big slap in the face to find out that the investment is worthless."
What's wrong with Mozilla? It's free and cross platform and available for 10.1-10.3. If you are impatient, buy the Panther upgrade, otherwise wait for them to rewrite parts of it to use the Jaguar frameworks.
Ok that was some troll.
Want more than one button? Get a logitec optical. They are better than most mice you get with PCs standard.
Slow? Have you tried panther?
OS X contains more open source than Darwin. Apple contributed back to the KHTML source tree after making improvements for their Safari browser and I'm sure they have been involved in the Samba 3.x project and Open Directory.
There is one factor you are missing here. R&D costs. Dell uses R&D to reduce costs on the production and supply chain whereas Apple uses R&D money to research and develop new products. What a concept huh? PC makers don't make anything orginal but rather just take comodity parts and repackage them.
Apple has to price to cover overhead and R&D of new products. Then there is the concept of economies of scale that you should learn about.
Who else besides Apple and Dell are actually making a profit in the consumer market?
The powerPC architecture does not have the problems with legacy that X86 does: IRQs,DMA conflicts,paralell ports,serial ports segmented memory etc...
None of those "features" belong in a gaming console.
But you don't consider TCO. What if something goes wrong with it? Who do you turn to? Yourself? No warranty or extended coverage.
As a software developer, I value my free time. My time is not worthless and I'm glad I switched and got rid of my franken pc.
This makes absolutely no sense. How would they realize cost savings by having a proprietary design with X86? Do you realize that the G5 CPU is not the expensive part of the macs? It's the proprietary motherboard.
Honestly though, mac motherboards are not really proprietary. They have a slightly modified Open Firmware rom and that is about it. It is pretty much a standard CHRP PPC board with a few tweaks. Now the G5 motherboard is a different story. Nobody else makes IBM 970 motherboards with the same features.
IIRC, Xeons cost more than IBM 970s.
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Honestly, I see our church projection system PC break almost every other week and we have to resort to overheads for the lyrics.
They could have saved themselves a lot of grief by getting a cheap used mac to use with the LCD projector.
On the mac, you don't have to worry about IRQs, DMA conflicts or Input/Output ranges.
I did not switch just because of OS X (although it had something to do with it) but also because of the fact that open firmware allows me to boot off an external USB or Firewire drive.
The hardware design has elegance whereas PC's look like frankenstien monsters which will break if you try to add another network card.
You obviously are not a developer. Having existing technology does not mean you can just slap together another product with it. You have to come up with a design, code it and test it. The development cycle of this product was expensive relative to the price.
I'm not just looking at this from a programmers point of view but as a user aswell. Linux needs to standardize on on window manager and GUI toolkit if they are going to succeed.
User's don't give a damn about having a lot of choices. They want to to just work and to be compatible/interoperable.
Commercial Apps must be able to run in binary form on all major distros if linux is to gain any significant marketshare on the desktop.
Except that you did not purchase the original store bought copy. There is nothing wrong with making a backup copy of something you purchased. Let me explain it to you very slowly. Duplicating a song that you do not own a copy of is theft.
How much did that $475 box really cost you? How much is your time worth? Many people hire maids because they are busy and their free time is valuable to them, not because they could not clean their place themselves. What happens when it breaks? No warranty on the entire unit. Good luck on getting warranty replacement on the parts. If you take TCO into consideration and peace of mind/lack of frustration, macs are cheap.
RTFA. It says that you can mount the drive as read/write. This has nothing to do with Samba.
We are talking about the server edition, not the desktop OS.
Mach is a kernel for kernels similar to the herd project. The BSD subsystem (kernel) runs on top of mach as does OS X and Classic kernels.
Why would Apple be interested in a technology designed to lock-in users to Microsoft? There is no incentive for them to do this. I don't see Apple abandoning Open firmware for some TCPA enabled Bios. That would be a step backwards since Open firmware provides more functionality than the Phoenix TCPA enabled bios does.
Then buy a mac. Macs don't use bios. They have Open Firmware and Apple is not associated with the TCPA.
This type of thinking is folly. Every outsourcing project the company I work for has done so far has been an utter failure. Outsourcing does not work except for a few cases and adding a language barrier impedes the process of software development even further.
They backported iChat AV and iCal to name two. They did not use Jaguar libs because of the performance increase the Panther libs would provide on Panther.
They had been saying all along they were going to support Jaguar. Confirmed by @stake? I thought they were the ones that found the bug. What motivation would they have to be impartial when they can generate more publicity for themselves with sensationalism. I see nowhere where Apple said they would not release an update for Jaguar.
"It's a pretty big slap in the face to find out that the investment is worthless." What's wrong with Mozilla? It's free and cross platform and available for 10.1-10.3. If you are impatient, buy the Panther upgrade, otherwise wait for them to rewrite parts of it to use the Jaguar frameworks.
Ok that was some troll. Want more than one button? Get a logitec optical. They are better than most mice you get with PCs standard. Slow? Have you tried panther? OS X contains more open source than Darwin. Apple contributed back to the KHTML source tree after making improvements for their Safari browser and I'm sure they have been involved in the Samba 3.x project and Open Directory.
There is one factor you are missing here. R&D costs. Dell uses R&D to reduce costs on the production and supply chain whereas Apple uses R&D money to research and develop new products. What a concept huh? PC makers don't make anything orginal but rather just take comodity parts and repackage them. Apple has to price to cover overhead and R&D of new products. Then there is the concept of economies of scale that you should learn about. Who else besides Apple and Dell are actually making a profit in the consumer market?
Um... Maybe for the game gfx artists, game developers, and Virtual Xbox 1 developers in the Xbox R&D department?
Are you a product of the US educational system? Learn to read.
The powerPC architecture does not have the problems with legacy that X86 does: IRQs,DMA conflicts,paralell ports,serial ports segmented memory etc... None of those "features" belong in a gaming console.
But you don't consider TCO. What if something goes wrong with it? Who do you turn to? Yourself? No warranty or extended coverage. As a software developer, I value my free time. My time is not worthless and I'm glad I switched and got rid of my franken pc.
This makes absolutely no sense. How would they realize cost savings by having a proprietary design with X86? Do you realize that the G5 CPU is not the expensive part of the macs? It's the proprietary motherboard. Honestly though, mac motherboards are not really proprietary. They have a slightly modified Open Firmware rom and that is about it. It is pretty much a standard CHRP PPC board with a few tweaks. Now the G5 motherboard is a different story. Nobody else makes IBM 970 motherboards with the same features. IIRC, Xeons cost more than IBM 970s.
Yes, there is a version for macs. In fact, there are a couple "live cd" linux distros out there for PPC.
INAL but are they not supposed to prove damages? What has Apple Corps make/distributed lately.