Breaking the law by building a Hackintosh? Who cares?
If I have bought a copy of OSX I can do pretty much as I please with it isn't that the principle of first sale?
If I haven't bought it I am just as guilty as that fella over there with his pirate copies of Office & Photoshop.
My point exactly. But I bet you don't get that.
The problem with building a Hackingtosh is it is a fragile system, as soon as you want to use a piece of software that requires a later version of any part Osx you are liable to break it. It is also a roll of the dice as to the existence of working drivers for the hardware it's applied to.
Sounds like you're talking about Linux.
Oh, and that's another reason why building a "hack" isn't a good idea: Surprise! The company which didn't support your hardware is going to CONTINUE not supporting your hardware. [Rollseyes]
There is a FORK of Darwin that remains Open Source; but ever since 10.5 (Leopard), IIRC, Apple has not released the source for Darwin. I submit that, for whatever reason, the actual turning point was when Apple decided to do the Intel switch.
If all their DRM servers and infrastructure stuff fell off the face of the earth tomorrow, a lot of iphone owners would be screwed. Pretty much every single company that tries to play in the app market would be screwed too, by bad publicity and legal challenges when all their stuff disappears along with the platform it existed on.
Exactly WHAT "DRM Servers and infrastructure" are you talking about? The only thing that Apple maintains DRM on (and please show me a company that doesn't) is "video" content sold on the iTunes store. Movies and TV Shows. Period.
And if you're talking about the iCloud infrastructure, I would bet that only about 10% of iPhone/iPad owners even use it, let alone would be "screwed" without it. I am as big an Apple Fan as anyone I know; but I don't personally use iCloud for ANYthing; simply because I don't like "Cloud" services in general, be it Google, Apple, Microsoft or Amazon. If an asteroid hit Apple's giant datacenter in Cary, NC, I would lose exactly NOTHING.
Don't you think that NOT having multiple plants to produce all their phones is a strength if ever they can't sell a phone anymore? How can you put that in their weakness list?
The moron puts it on his "weakness" list because he's too stupid (and or hate-filled) to understand what Contract Manufacturing is, or he would realize how ignorant he sounds to those who HAVE worked designing hardware products in the past decade or so.
Apple does not make its phones. Apple doesn't have any factories or silicon fabs
So, in your universe, ARM holdings, Ltd. hasn't "made" anything, and therefore has no value; since they haven't "manufactured" one single ARM microcontroller, right?
And the same goes for hundreds of "fabless" chip-design firms, such as PASemi. They didn't "design" anything, since they were without fabrication facilities.
Samsung is a very unique company, in that they can pretty much take sand and copper and churn out finished goods. But even you admitted that they only make most of their phones. So I guess even they don't qualify, either, eh? And I would be very surprised if many of their products were not manufactured using the same Contract Manufacturing vendors that Apple (and a passel of other companies) use.
Face it, there's a reason it's called a "Supply CHAIN".
By your rules, Samsung doesn't make anything unless it mines the copper and silica, too. Bet they didn't manufacture their pick-and-place equipment, or the injection molding machines, either. Does that mean they don't manufacture anything?
See how ridiculous your argument is? Of course you don't.
Contract Manufacturing is a way of life. Of course you'd already know that if you had a job that got anywhere close to creating electronic "finished goods", whether consumer or industrial.
And Apple could care less about making money offa OS X. That's why it is $20. They obviously don't wan't to LOSE money, either; but it is NOT considered anything more than a way to sell Macs.
nothing else is as credible a threat to MS on the mainstream desktop as Linux is.
Read it again. I bolded the relevant bits. OS X is a beast in the high-end niche of laptops over a thousand dollars but unless Apple decides to make an inexpensive entry-level general purpose computer, that's where it'll stay. The iPad is very successful but it isn't the "desktop". I've had lots of people come to me with computer problems that I'd have loved to turn on to OS X but they just can't spend the money and I'm not about to make them my Hackintosh guinea pig so it doesn't happen. Since Linux will run on the 300-600 dollar mainstream computers the majority of the market buys it is more of a threat to Windows than OS X is. For different reasons, both OS X and Linux maintaining their respective status quo is what will probably happen in the near term so it's academic anyway.
Most of "Mainstream" corporate America does not buy or build shitbox 300-600 dollar computers; so the fact that Linux runs on them is a straw man. As many have pointed out time and again, most corporate desktops are populated with Dells or HPs that are much closer to a Mac mini or even iMac in price, than to an e-Systems or Newegg Frankenputer.
If you recall Jobs' Keynote when he introduced the iPad, Apple never intended it to be a "keyboardless laptop". It is a brand-new product niche, somewhat overlapping laptop use-cases; but certainly NOT a full-on "replacement" for same. (Yes, I know, tablets, including Mac-based ones, have existed for years, blah blah; but everyone reading this knows what I mean) In fact, Apple even stopped selling its own keyboard-dock.
Finger-based tablets are spectacular for such things as a "clipboard replacement" and point-of-sale terminals in many "mainstream" business and professional settings, and for providing pretty much the ultimate programmable front-panel for other musical and media-producing applications; but unless there is no other alternative available, make fairly poor substitutes for a desktop or laptop computer. I know. I own all of the available paradigms, and enjoy each for its particular and unique strengths. Only a stupid (or desperate) person recommends using a crescent wrench to hammer a nail. I love my iPad, and have been asked by many if I would recommend purchasing one instead of their next laptop; but in every case, I have recommended that they borrow mine or another one to see if they would really feel comfortable with that has their ONLY computer. Fact is, I personally would not. But neither would I trade my iPad for anything but a better iPad.
And no, I don't use it to "consume content" (unless you count surfing "consuming content"). But I recognize that it simply isn't a general-purpose computer, no more than my iPhone is, even though I have many apps on both devices (including such things as "office applications", ftp servers and webservers, Telnet, multitrack audio recording, nonlinear video editing, etc.) that would argue against that. Have I used my iPhone's internal mic (which is surprisingly good, btw) with the DAW app to record an impromptu jam session? Sure, and I was glad to be able to have something in my pocket that could do that! But I wouldn't have used that method if I'd had a real recording setup (running on a Desktop of Laptop) with me at the time.
BTW, good for you for not counseling your friends to break the law by building a Hackintosh.
OS X has already surpassed Vista (which was an Microsoft OS shipped pre-loaded on HOW many systems?).
No, you and Linus go back to the back-room where you belong. Because you DO own that space; but will NEVER, EVER, EVER own the desktop, unless BOTH Apple and Microsoft go bankrupt. And at this point, Apple could literaly burn cash in giant fireplaces to heat their facilities during the winter, and still NEVER go bankrupt.
In a vacuum the metal parts, if very well machined, might be trying to bond together. Ball Aerospace used to sell a compound that was designed to keep the door on the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) from seizing shut in the vacuum of space. They sold it later to coat LP records to reduce friction from the diamond stylus dragging through the groove in a vinyl record. Perhaps they have some of that or moly paste for the threads like used for the spark plug in a gasoline motor with aluminum head threads. Just a thought...
Wow! Is THAT where that stuff came from?!? I might have used it myself had I known that; but always just considered it yet another bit of snake-old to dupe gullible audiophiles out of their money. Afterall, there have been no shortage of those...
Yes and if it can only turn 9 times why can they undo it and use a washer? I'm sure there is a good reason but I have no idea if the specifications for that are publicly available.
Sure. I'm sure they can just go into the garage, and grub around in a coffee can for the right-sized washer...
PB Blast is hands-down the most effective "penetrating oil".
I learned about it from a mechanic-friend who worked restoring military equipment for a museum. Stuff ranged from WW I to Vietnam-era, and was NOT stored with an eye toward "rust prevention", to say the least! br.
The rule is: If you want to PREVENT rust, then WD-40 is the ticket; but if you already HAVE rust, PB Blast is the best!
Found that out after I ruined my skateboard bearings as a kid. My brother's board was a dream because he was smart enough to take the bearings out and pack them in actual grease instead of just squirting in WD-40.
These days the only use I can imagine for the stuff is to keep tools from rusting.
That's because "water displacement" is EXACTLY what WD-40 was designed for.
Then, probably out of frustration, someone put some on a frozen bolt, and a new consumer product was born.
But no, it isn't a lubricant; because it was never meant to be. It always saddens/amuses me to see that WD-40 is used for that application, when so many better products, such as PB Blast, exist for that purpose.
I wouldn't know, because my 1.5 year old Mac won't even run the latest versions of WINE, without having to pay Apple for an upgrade to my OS, an upgrade that makes my computer more tablet-like and for all I know might de-stabilize the system.
So, do you think that WINE's incompatibility is APPLE's fault, or the WINE Project's?
And if you can afford a Mac, then whining about $20 for an OS upgrade just makes you sound petty and churlish.
You mean the OS that, by default, blocks you from running content that isn't blessed by Apple? Yes, you can download apps from sources that aren't the App Store - but they still have to be signed, otherwise, it either will refuse to run or lie to you and say that the app is "damaged" and you should "drag it to the trash."
And if you try and disable this "feature" then it yells at you, warning you of dire consequences if you try and allow non-Apple-blessed apps to run.
Nice try, hater.
"Blessed by Apple" in this case means "Signed by Developer". Doesn't sound like APPLE is "blessing" SHIT. Signing an app SHOULD be seen as a Good Thing(tm); because it not only means that the Developer has SOME "documentation" on file; but also means that your friendly-neighborhood software aggregator has not tampered with it along the way.
And besides, it's REALLY hard to override Gatekeeper. Here's how you do it. Better write it down; because it gets complicated: Right-Click on the file, and choose "Open".
Yeah, Apple is one bunch of Draconian motherfuckers, I tells ya.
And yet I'm pretty sure the system called it "virtual memory" in the control that you had to adjust. It's been about a decade since I supported these systems, but I'm pretty sure.
You would be wrong. It was called "Application Memory". System 8 and 9 had a bare-bones VM system, but, other than turning it on or off, it was not "adjustable".
Andit wasn't just an issue of allocating *enough*. One of the silly things was that some applications would crash if you allocated too much, and some required that you turn it off.
There was no way to "turn off" the Application Memory setting, and the VM on/off was Global, IIRC. You could make Application Memory larger or smaller; but not "turn if off". It was there for every Application. Part of the File Attributes for an Application.
Admittedly, even at the time I didn't know enough to tell you why some specific applications would die if the virtual memory was turned on, but neither did any of the "Macintosh experts" that I dealt with, and sure enough fiddling with the virtual memory would cause programs to either crash or stop crashing, with there being no setting that would allow everything to run.
As I said above, upon further research/remembering, I found/recalled that In MacOS 8 and 9 there was a very rudimentary VM system; but the only control was to turn it on or off. VM "swap file" size was FIXED at 2 times the size of your physical RAM. I had forgotten all about that, and I apologize. There certainly were some (especially legacy) applications and drivers that hated that VM scheme, no doubt. But most devs. quickly updated their apps to be "System 8" compatible.
Never heard of a single security problem with the Macs.
Well maybe you were dealing with an environment that wasn't interested in security, then. Mac OS didn't even have multi-user support until OSX. OS9 started to provide some multi-user support, but it wasn't very extensive, and it generally wasn't worth the trouble.
Actually, I think the Multi-User support began around System 8.5; but I can't remember exactly. But yes, just like the "Multi-User" support in competing OSes of the day, it was pretty much useless. So?
It has more to do with the form factor than anything else. Lenovo's new ultrabook series have similar form factor and the same exact limitations (soldered memory / ssd, etc.)
And yet no one whines about them "restricting choices", eh?
> Good luck with finding a laptop with the MBPwRD's dimensions or display that you can upgrade.
You labor under the false assumption that the rest of us accept the set of tradeoffs that Apple has ordained for you. Whereas you are forced to frame your response in terms of those things that you (wrongly) think we can't have, we are quite happy to take advantage of the diversity that the rest of the PC marketplace allows.
We are simply not limited to those narrow few choices that Apple will allow you to have.
Ok, then; how about "Good luck finding a laptop that you can upgrade anything but the main drive and perhaps the RAM. And even the SSD in the MBPwRD is theoretically upgradeable, since it is on a subassembly with a connector.
It very much is the way things are going to be done and it turns out, people like it. The experiment was first tried with the MacBook Air and people bought it without hesitation. Had the Air been a flop this wouldn't be happening.
Or put another way, I've never met someone that "upgraded" their laptop after 2 years anyway. They hand it down or put it to work in the corner of the room, but they aren't upgraded. Whether it is a Dell, Mac, or Thinkpad. I put more ram in mine after 3, but I think I"m by far the exception. The most upgrades laptops probably ever received was in that period of time when you could replace the old hdd with ssd and get a huge bump. Now we're falling out of that even as laptops come stock with ssd.
Besides memory and HDs; how many laptops are truly upgradeable, anyway?
And from the looks of things, it looks like the SSD will be upgradeable, at least at some point. The memory is another story; so get as much as you can when you buy. But isn't that de regeur with most computer purchases, especially laptops?
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Breaking the law by building a Hackintosh? Who cares?
If I have bought a copy of OSX I can do pretty much as I please with it isn't that the principle of first sale? If I haven't bought it I am just as guilty as that fella over there with his pirate copies of Office & Photoshop.
My point exactly. But I bet you don't get that.
The problem with building a Hackingtosh is it is a fragile system, as soon as you want to use a piece of software that requires a later version of any part Osx you are liable to break it. It is also a roll of the dice as to the existence of working drivers for the hardware it's applied to.
Sounds like you're talking about Linux.
Oh, and that's another reason why building a "hack" isn't a good idea: Surprise! The company which didn't support your hardware is going to CONTINUE not supporting your hardware. [Rollseyes]
It is easier to load a version of Linux and not have your values called into question. Isn't OSX built on top of open sourced code anyway? It looks like Darwin is still struggling to survive. http://www.puredarwin.org/welcome/about#TOC-Frequently-asked-questions
There is a FORK of Darwin that remains Open Source; but ever since 10.5 (Leopard), IIRC, Apple has not released the source for Darwin. I submit that, for whatever reason, the actual turning point was when Apple decided to do the Intel switch.
do such people question the desirability of having billionaires in the first place.
Have I got a book for you...
If all their DRM servers and infrastructure stuff fell off the face of the earth tomorrow, a lot of iphone owners would be screwed. Pretty much every single company that tries to play in the app market would be screwed too, by bad publicity and legal challenges when all their stuff disappears along with the platform it existed on.
Exactly WHAT "DRM Servers and infrastructure" are you talking about? The only thing that Apple maintains DRM on (and please show me a company that doesn't) is "video" content sold on the iTunes store. Movies and TV Shows. Period.
And if you're talking about the iCloud infrastructure, I would bet that only about 10% of iPhone/iPad owners even use it, let alone would be "screwed" without it. I am as big an Apple Fan as anyone I know; but I don't personally use iCloud for ANYthing; simply because I don't like "Cloud" services in general, be it Google, Apple, Microsoft or Amazon. If an asteroid hit Apple's giant datacenter in Cary, NC, I would lose exactly NOTHING.
Yeah, nothing apart from the first tablet that didn't suck and that was a huge milestone.
The iPad hasn't had near the effect on the market the iPhone had so while it is notable it isn't really what the GP was getting at.
You sir, are full of crap. Tell me how many companies were making finger-based tablets before, and after, the iPad?
No wonder you posted AC, you chickenshit fucktard.
Don't you think that NOT having multiple plants to produce all their phones is a strength if ever they can't sell a phone anymore? How can you put that in their weakness list?
The moron puts it on his "weakness" list because he's too stupid (and or hate-filled) to understand what Contract Manufacturing is, or he would realize how ignorant he sounds to those who HAVE worked designing hardware products in the past decade or so.
It has been commented that this is a weakness before since if their products ever fall out of favour they don't have much else.
Except for that $110 BILLION in the bank; which they got by being stupid and not making the right decisions.
Apple does not make its phones. Apple doesn't have any factories or silicon fabs
So, in your universe, ARM holdings, Ltd. hasn't "made" anything, and therefore has no value; since they haven't "manufactured" one single ARM microcontroller, right?
And the same goes for hundreds of "fabless" chip-design firms, such as PASemi. They didn't "design" anything, since they were without fabrication facilities.
Samsung is a very unique company, in that they can pretty much take sand and copper and churn out finished goods. But even you admitted that they only make most of their phones. So I guess even they don't qualify, either, eh? And I would be very surprised if many of their products were not manufactured using the same Contract Manufacturing vendors that Apple (and a passel of other companies) use.
Face it, there's a reason it's called a "Supply CHAIN".
By your rules, Samsung doesn't make anything unless it mines the copper and silica, too. Bet they didn't manufacture their pick-and-place equipment, or the injection molding machines, either. Does that mean they don't manufacture anything?
See how ridiculous your argument is? Of course you don't.
Contract Manufacturing is a way of life. Of course you'd already know that if you had a job that got anywhere close to creating electronic "finished goods", whether consumer or industrial.
Apple designs stuff. Foxconn makes it.
That's only been true for the past 1/3 of their corporate "life".
Apple started out making its own products. In fact, they had QUITE the modern manufacturing setup, with plants in several locations worldwide.
But now, like nearly every other "hi tech" company, they use CONTRACT MANUFACTURING to reduce labor and capital expense costs.
Why don't you trot this same argument out when there's a discussion about another computer or "computing device" company?
Oh, I know...
To which I simply reiterate:
NEVER, EVER, EVER.
And Apple could care less about making money offa OS X. That's why it is $20. They obviously don't wan't to LOSE money, either; but it is NOT considered anything more than a way to sell Macs.
And boy, is it doing that , now at around 12% marketshare, even though "PC" sales in general are down in this shitty economy. And, more relevant to this discussion, increasingly so to (former) Windows users.
nothing else is as credible a threat to MS on the mainstream desktop as Linux is.
Read it again. I bolded the relevant bits. OS X is a beast in the high-end niche of laptops over a thousand dollars but unless Apple decides to make an inexpensive entry-level general purpose computer, that's where it'll stay. The iPad is very successful but it isn't the "desktop". I've had lots of people come to me with computer problems that I'd have loved to turn on to OS X but they just can't spend the money and I'm not about to make them my Hackintosh guinea pig so it doesn't happen. Since Linux will run on the 300-600 dollar mainstream computers the majority of the market buys it is more of a threat to Windows than OS X is. For different reasons, both OS X and Linux maintaining their respective status quo is what will probably happen in the near term so it's academic anyway.
Most of "Mainstream" corporate America does not buy or build shitbox 300-600 dollar computers; so the fact that Linux runs on them is a straw man. As many have pointed out time and again, most corporate desktops are populated with Dells or HPs that are much closer to a Mac mini or even iMac in price, than to an e-Systems or Newegg Frankenputer.
If you recall Jobs' Keynote when he introduced the iPad, Apple never intended it to be a "keyboardless laptop". It is a brand-new product niche, somewhat overlapping laptop use-cases; but certainly NOT a full-on "replacement" for same. (Yes, I know, tablets, including Mac-based ones, have existed for years, blah blah; but everyone reading this knows what I mean) In fact, Apple even stopped selling its own keyboard-dock.
Finger-based tablets are spectacular for such things as a "clipboard replacement" and point-of-sale terminals in many "mainstream" business and professional settings, and for providing pretty much the ultimate programmable front-panel for other musical and media-producing applications; but unless there is no other alternative available, make fairly poor substitutes for a desktop or laptop computer. I know. I own all of the available paradigms, and enjoy each for its particular and unique strengths. Only a stupid (or desperate) person recommends using a crescent wrench to hammer a nail. I love my iPad, and have been asked by many if I would recommend purchasing one instead of their next laptop; but in every case, I have recommended that they borrow mine or another one to see if they would really feel comfortable with that has their ONLY computer. Fact is, I personally would not. But neither would I trade my iPad for anything but a better iPad.
And no, I don't use it to "consume content" (unless you count surfing "consuming content"). But I recognize that it simply isn't a general-purpose computer, no more than my iPhone is, even though I have many apps on both devices (including such things as "office applications", ftp servers and webservers, Telnet, multitrack audio recording, nonlinear video editing, etc.) that would argue against that. Have I used my iPhone's internal mic (which is surprisingly good, btw) with the DAW app to record an impromptu jam session? Sure, and I was glad to be able to have something in my pocket that could do that! But I wouldn't have used that method if I'd had a real recording setup (running on a Desktop of Laptop) with me at the time.
BTW, good for you for not counseling your friends to break the law by building a Hackintosh.
You wanna know why? Because nothing else is as credible a threat to MS on the mainstream desktop as Linux is.
Oh, PLEASE...
OS X has already surpassed Vista (which was an Microsoft OS shipped pre-loaded on HOW many systems?).
No, you and Linus go back to the back-room where you belong. Because you DO own that space; but will NEVER, EVER, EVER own the desktop, unless BOTH Apple and Microsoft go bankrupt. And at this point, Apple could literaly burn cash in giant fireplaces to heat their facilities during the winter, and still NEVER go bankrupt.
In a vacuum the metal parts, if very well machined, might be trying to bond together. Ball Aerospace used to sell a compound that was designed to keep the door on the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) from seizing shut in the vacuum of space. They sold it later to coat LP records to reduce friction from the diamond stylus dragging through the groove in a vinyl record. Perhaps they have some of that or moly paste for the threads like used for the spark plug in a gasoline motor with aluminum head threads. Just a thought...
Wow! Is THAT where that stuff came from?!? I might have used it myself had I known that; but always just considered it yet another bit of snake-old to dupe gullible audiophiles out of their money. Afterall, there have been no shortage of those...
Yes and if it can only turn 9 times why can they undo it and use a washer? I'm sure there is a good reason but I have no idea if the specifications for that are publicly available.
Sure. I'm sure they can just go into the garage, and grub around in a coffee can for the right-sized washer...
Riiiiight.
hell no, use PB BLASTER!
I wholeheartedly agree!
PB Blast is hands-down the most effective "penetrating oil".
I learned about it from a mechanic-friend who worked restoring military equipment for a museum. Stuff ranged from WW I to Vietnam-era, and was NOT stored with an eye toward "rust prevention", to say the least!
br. The rule is: If you want to PREVENT rust, then WD-40 is the ticket; but if you already HAVE rust, PB Blast is the best!
Found that out after I ruined my skateboard bearings as a kid. My brother's board was a dream because he was smart enough to take the bearings out and pack them in actual grease instead of just squirting in WD-40.
These days the only use I can imagine for the stuff is to keep tools from rusting.
That's because "water displacement" is EXACTLY what WD-40 was designed for.
WD-40 stands for "Water Displacement [formula] 40", and was created to keep rust off Atlas missiles while they were in their launch silos.
Then, probably out of frustration, someone put some on a frozen bolt, and a new consumer product was born.
But no, it isn't a lubricant; because it was never meant to be. It always saddens/amuses me to see that WD-40 is used for that application, when so many better products, such as PB Blast, exist for that purpose.
I wouldn't know, because my 1.5 year old Mac won't even run the latest versions of WINE, without having to pay Apple for an upgrade to my OS, an upgrade that makes my computer more tablet-like and for all I know might de-stabilize the system.
So, do you think that WINE's incompatibility is APPLE's fault, or the WINE Project's?
And if you can afford a Mac, then whining about $20 for an OS upgrade just makes you sound petty and churlish.
As for Mountain Lion being more "tablet-like"...
But even if you use those opt outs on your new computer you still pay the Microsoft tax.
I know a way around that...
Er, that's "on cue"...
No, for Linux, it iS "on queue" (as in "still waiting").
Sorry Linux fanbois, I couldn't resist.
You mean the OS that, by default, blocks you from running content that isn't blessed by Apple? Yes, you can download apps from sources that aren't the App Store - but they still have to be signed, otherwise, it either will refuse to run or lie to you and say that the app is "damaged" and you should "drag it to the trash."
And if you try and disable this "feature" then it yells at you, warning you of dire consequences if you try and allow non-Apple-blessed apps to run.
Nice try, hater.
"Blessed by Apple" in this case means "Signed by Developer ". Doesn't sound like APPLE is "blessing" SHIT. Signing an app SHOULD be seen as a Good Thing(tm); because it not only means that the Developer has SOME "documentation" on file; but also means that your friendly-neighborhood software aggregator has not tampered with it along the way.
And besides, it's REALLY hard to override Gatekeeper. Here's how you do it. Better write it down; because it gets complicated: Right-Click on the file, and choose "Open". Yeah, Apple is one bunch of Draconian motherfuckers, I tells ya.
MacOS had no Virtual Memory system, per se.
And yet I'm pretty sure the system called it "virtual memory" in the control that you had to adjust. It's been about a decade since I supported these systems, but I'm pretty sure.
You would be wrong. It was called "Application Memory". System 8 and 9 had a bare-bones VM system, but, other than turning it on or off, it was not "adjustable".
Andit wasn't just an issue of allocating *enough*. One of the silly things was that some applications would crash if you allocated too much, and some required that you turn it off.
There was no way to "turn off" the Application Memory setting, and the VM on/off was Global, IIRC. You could make Application Memory larger or smaller; but not "turn if off". It was there for every Application. Part of the File Attributes for an Application.
Admittedly, even at the time I didn't know enough to tell you why some specific applications would die if the virtual memory was turned on, but neither did any of the "Macintosh experts" that I dealt with, and sure enough fiddling with the virtual memory would cause programs to either crash or stop crashing, with there being no setting that would allow everything to run.
As I said above, upon further research/remembering, I found/recalled that In MacOS 8 and 9 there was a very rudimentary VM system; but the only control was to turn it on or off. VM "swap file" size was FIXED at 2 times the size of your physical RAM. I had forgotten all about that, and I apologize. There certainly were some (especially legacy) applications and drivers that hated that VM scheme, no doubt. But most devs. quickly updated their apps to be "System 8" compatible.
Never heard of a single security problem with the Macs.
Well maybe you were dealing with an environment that wasn't interested in security, then. Mac OS didn't even have multi-user support until OSX. OS9 started to provide some multi-user support, but it wasn't very extensive, and it generally wasn't worth the trouble.
Actually, I think the Multi-User support began around System 8.5; but I can't remember exactly. But yes, just like the "Multi-User" support in competing OSes of the day, it was pretty much useless. So?
It has more to do with the form factor than anything else. Lenovo's new ultrabook series have similar form factor and the same exact limitations (soldered memory / ssd, etc.)
And yet no one whines about them "restricting choices", eh?
> Good luck with finding a laptop with the MBPwRD's dimensions or display that you can upgrade.
You labor under the false assumption that the rest of us accept the set of tradeoffs that Apple has ordained for you. Whereas you are forced to frame your response in terms of those things that you (wrongly) think we can't have, we are quite happy to take advantage of the diversity that the rest of the PC marketplace allows.
We are simply not limited to those narrow few choices that Apple will allow you to have.
Ok, then; how about "Good luck finding a laptop that you can upgrade anything but the main drive and perhaps the RAM. And even the SSD in the MBPwRD is theoretically upgradeable, since it is on a subassembly with a connector.
It very much is the way things are going to be done and it turns out, people like it. The experiment was first tried with the MacBook Air and people bought it without hesitation. Had the Air been a flop this wouldn't be happening.
Or put another way, I've never met someone that "upgraded" their laptop after 2 years anyway. They hand it down or put it to work in the corner of the room, but they aren't upgraded. Whether it is a Dell, Mac, or Thinkpad. I put more ram in mine after 3, but I think I"m by far the exception. The most upgrades laptops probably ever received was in that period of time when you could replace the old hdd with ssd and get a huge bump. Now we're falling out of that even as laptops come stock with ssd.
Besides memory and HDs; how many laptops are truly upgradeable, anyway?
And from the looks of things, it looks like the SSD will be upgradeable, at least at some point. The memory is another story; so get as much as you can when you buy. But isn't that de regeur with most computer purchases, especially laptops?
Only if you want to spend money with Apple. I'll stick with building my own, or using a laptop from a brand where I can upgrade it if I want.
Good luck with finding a laptop with the MBPwRD's dimensions or display that you can upgrade.
Oh, wait. Make that "Good luck finding a laptop with the MBPwRD's display. Period."
If Microsoft stops supporting Windows, Office, and other software tomorrow; Business IT structure would probably collapse.
Yeah, because most of them are too lazy or stupid to realize there are alternatives.
And THAT, my boys, is EXACTLY the ONLY thing that is keeping MS in business.
So, on behalf of Steve Ballmer, a/k/a Monkey Boy, I'd like to thank the ENTIRE IT INDUSTRY for helping this remain a reality.