I would actually prefer Battletoad over Xenu or Vista... but hey maybe I'm just biased against cults and unsuccessful operating systems and am not caught up on the nuances of what precisely a "battletoad" is.
What I don't get is why anyone would lobby hard to name a space station module after a space ship. I could see naming the next generation launch vehicle Serenity, but a module on a space station? Meh.
The last time this happened, a whole bunch of people lobbied NASA to have a space shuttle named after the Enterprise. What they got was the practice shuttle, that never actually flew in space. I would think it would be more memorable if they lobbied to get an actual shuttle that flew missions named after their favorite ship. Although, in retrospect, that shuttle will probably be seen by many more people than the actual shuttles since it is now sitting in the Udvar-Hazey center at Dulles (or, the Uday-Qusay center as my father affectionately calls it). So maybe it was worth it.
Hah, well at least they have trains that can be late. In the U.S., congress has determined that they would rather subsidize highways and airplanes than trains. For example, our national rail system doesn't even have a dedicated track. It's forced to borrow lines from freight rail, so the Amtrak frequently gets delayed because it has to pull over to let a freight train pass. This was one of the reasons the Accela is such a disaster, the congress refused to give it it's own lines, so it had to satisfy the safety rules for a collision with a freight train. The end result was that the Acela is so heavy it shakes itself apart, that's when it can get up to top speed, which it usually can't because it runs on shitty freight lines designed for 30 mph or so.
Of course, the amtrak is so limited in the number of places it goes that few americans have actually used it to go somewhere. The only time I ever used it on a regular basis was when I lived in California and would head down to San Francisco for the weekend -- the traffic was so bad and the parking in SF so horrendous that it was much easier to do that and take the BART or the MUNI everywhere.
I live in Atlanta now and the main "train station" for this metropolis of 5.6 million people is about the size of just one of the minor stops for a city in europe, there's not even a comparison to one of the hub stations like grand central or union station. It still blows my mind whenever I see it.
I'll chime in here, the AI in MTW2 did some things a little more cleverly, but for the most part, you could still beat the pants off it flanking with your cavalry. Oh, and I had to micromanage my troops in MTW2 all the time as well, the grouping just sucked ass: not only do you get misalignments like what somebody above mentioned, the autorotation of the line was hideous, I don't know how many battles I had to hurriedly select all and then hit stop because one side my line was advancing while the other was retreating. Annoying like hell. I was considering getting ETW, but since reading these posts, I think I'll pass.
No, it isn't. E.g., the FBI copyright warning should be unskippable. You just got lucky with the DVD player you bought, or are playing it using software that doesn't care on your computer (vlc, kaffeine, etc.). There's some kind of "do not skip" flag to which most, but not all, DVD players pay attention. My hardware DVD player will not skip previews or advertisements, but when I watch the same DVDs on my computer, they can be bypassed.
For me the issue is not the technical merits of the blu-ray discs, it's the fact that as a distribution format for movies, they are loaded up with the most asinine DRM that I could possibly imagine. I recently built a new home PC and thought I'd finally take the plunge and buy the newest media and I got a blu-ray player for it. Since I don't own a television, I was looking forward to watching blu-ray movies on my monitor. As I discovered however, my monitor is DVI so I wasn't allowed to actually watch my legally purchased blu-ray movies on my legally purchased blu-ray player. Wow... To boot, I like to run linux and I couldn't get dumphd to run so to watch movies I have to buy each one, copy it to the hard drive while stripping it of DRM using the windows program anyDVD, and then I can watch it using linux. Wow, what a load of crap! Somebody needs to take a class action suit against whoever is pushing this HDCP nonsense.
While there isn't any real connection between blu-ray as a distribution medium and blu-ray as a storage medium, if I find the standard blu-ray movies repulsive, I don't care what the technical merits of the disc are, I'm going to avoid it like the plague. I swear I'm not buying another blu-ray disc until this DRM HDCP virtual engine nonsense is removed (or reverse-engineered) and the movies play on linux and play easily.
Haha, amazing, you're absolutely right. Both the older and newer models are using shared memory. According to this, the NVIDIA 9400M should blow the that intel 950 out of the water. You might actually be able to play games on the mini now.
I agree, in particular I want to see if twice as much shared DDR3 is any slower than dedicated DDR2 for the GPU. When this was announced yesterday, there were a huge number of people insisting that the graphics processors were a step downward because the graphics memory wasn't dedicated any more. Since I'm using DDR3 in my new home built PC, I suspect that the speed of the DDR3 will offset any advantage by using dedicated DDR2 memory, but no one really agreed with me. Of course, they couldn't prove me wrong either, they just kept insisting over and over again that "shared memory" sucks, but I'm not so sure in this particular comparison which would be better.
How about you read my comment again? Here, I'll quote it for you, "...or what apple expects the exchange rates to do." Did it ever occur to you that Apple might be expecting the dollar to rebound?
Actually, it's totally relevant because if the U.S. prices are staying the same, but the foreign ones are going up, it's because of the exchange rates, or what apple expects the exchange rates to do. The U.S. dollar sucks right now and europeans should be paying much more for U.S. products. I was in europe last summer and it cost me a tremendous amount of money, just because of the exchange rate.
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 128MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
whereas the old one had
Intel GMA 950 graphics processor using 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared by main memory
So you're getting twice as much graphics memory that is also faster graphics memory. Also, the intel GMA is onboard video the same as the 9400M. As for the price increase, it's only overseas prices that have gone up, the american ones are the same. That means it's probably just the exchange rates that's determining the european price.
Grandparent has it totally wrong about the prices, at least on the mini. There was no increase in price, but this is slashdot and everybody loves to hate Apple. The new ones are $599 and $799, which are exactly the same as the old one, if you don't believe the newegg, look at the wikipedia page on them it has all the prices and specs for the old models. Also, as you can see here, Newegg has one of the old models for sale still. They price it at $594, according to wikipedia it's the lower priced model with a smaller hard drive.
The big differences I see is a larger hard drive (120 GB vs. 80GB on the basic), Firewire 800 on the new one vs. 400 on the old one (!!! Looks like firewire ain't dead yet!), display port video out + mini-DVI vs. just mini-DVI, a bump in the processor up to 2 GHz from 1.83 GHz, DDR3 memory vs. DDR2 in the old one (which is nice), and finally the new one has NVIDIA 9400M vs. Intel GMA 950. Oh, and the front side bus is 1066 MHz now vs. 667 MHz previously.
Overall it looks like a nice upgrade on the system.
I immediately thought of old toys, like my precious ships for the star wars action figures, the imperial shuttle or b-wing whose plastic is all faded and yellowed. Now I can run around the room with them making laser noises and re-enact scenes from ROTJ just like I did when I was eight. Awesome!
They aren't all that bright: in one survey it was found that 58% cheated during medical school. Personally, I find the most irritating thing about doctors and dentists is their smugness. I'm not sure if they are trained to act that way or if that's just the innate tendency for the type of people medical school attracts. Either way, it makes it a annoying frustration to go for a doctor's visit. E.g., last time at the dentist I was complaining that they were x-raying my teeth too often and I was worried about leukemia and they actually told me that it's no more radiation than a cell phone. That might be true, but it's the WAVELENGTH of the radiation that causes the issues because the x-ray is short enough to break bonds in DNA. Either he was an idiot or he thought I was. I'm not going back.
I don't use Safari on my OS X boxes, but I know the underlying technology is required for OS X to function properly.
You can delete Safari from Mac OS X. It's easy, you just drag the application to the trash and then empty the trash. It doesn't "come back" later like with Windows. A lot of the libraries that Safari uses are used by the operating system, but those are system libraries and are used by other things as well (e.g., quicktime), and the application itself is removable. THAT is the problem with what Microsoft has done, it's not just that they've included a default browser or that they are a monopoly, it's that they've made it so that you can't remove the default browser and they've used their monopoly status to leverage that. They purposely built the explorer and the internet explorer into the same program so that you can't remove the browser functionality without borking the whole operating system. On the Mac, if I change my default browser to Firefox, if I then click on a system-wide internet link (like the "learn more" button on the.mac preference pane), it will open with the default browser not safari. On Windows, it often ignores your default browser for web-related tasks and uses IE.
if you're a standard user, your life has never been better
That's like the frog in the cooking pot saying, "oh good, the water only got one degree warmer, it's not boiling." A user's life might be better, but as someone who knows what decent privilege escalation and user controls actually look like, I would say that UAC is still a joke, but that joke would not be funny. Do yourself a favor and use a different operating system for awhile, it'll open your mind I promise. You may still continue to use Windows, but you'll at least recognize that it has flaws and could be better.
Oh and it's got nothing the OS not having a browser, the OS having a browser is fine, the PROBLEM is when the OS won't let you uninstall the default browser and use a different one. On Mac OS X, I can delete Safari and the OS does not reinstall the way Windows does. On linux, I can remove the firefox package and put in midori, or I can remove konqueror and put in kazehakase.
I'm not sure that the government stepping in and regulating computer code was gonna make it happen any faster.
You got modded funny, but I'll bite. Why did it take five and a half years for Microsoft to release Vista, and when they finally got around to it, they released software that was so bizarre that they are not even re-using the name for the subsequent release even though it looks to be only an incremental improvement? It's because they're a monopoly. If the government had forced Microsoft to stop leveraging the OEMs, my guess is that Vista would have been released sooner and would have been of higher quality because the OEMs would have been able to threaten to switch to a different operating system unless Microsoft delivered a usable OS. As it is, Microsoft could do things like introducing all the DRM crap in Vista because they don't care about the customer, because usually the customer has no practical choice but to buy their products. Linux adoption would have been improved right now if the government had done something. Also I bet we'd have a native linux version of Office already if MS had been split up.
Well first Zeus needs to transform himself into an animal like a swan, or a bull, and then he seduces some comely greek lass (hopefully a goddess in her own right) and impregnates her, and if you're lucky then the offspring (you) will be a female and of a goddess type rather than a mere mortal. Of course, Aphrodite was born because Cronus cut off Ouranos' genitals and threw them into the sea. The genitals floated around in the sea for a long time turned into Aphrodite, so that's another way to be a greek goddess. Oh, and there's Hera who was eaten by her father because he thought one of his children would betray him. Luckily for her Rhia gave him some herbs that made him barf. I suppose that's better than the "floating genitals" method of conception though...
Oh wait... that title doesn't say greek does it? Nevermind.
But at least in Apple Land you can run all the new stuff on all the hardware of the past five years, which is more than can be said for Wintel.
Actually it's a bit more than that. Last week I just got to watch a vintage 450 MHz blue and white G3 from 1999 run their newest OS, leopard (10.5). Granted, it ran like shit, all the fancy window animations were slow, but it did run and was usable. I wonder if anyone has tried putting Vista on a 450 MHz machine?
I run beta software all the time, I'm typing this using Safari 4, and I used to run Debian unstable, so yeah okay I know beta software is well, beta quality. BUT... Microsoft is a company that has demonstrated repeatedly that it will release software that isn't ready, just as it did with Vista, WinME, & Windows95. How do you know that this time it will be any different? You don't know that. My point was that give their track record, and let's be honest, they must be under even more pressure to release Windows 7 than to release Vista, that we should be skeptical. Sure, we can all sit back and say "oh it's only beta, what's a few kernel panics between friends?" But when they release this thing and it doesn't run, I know I for one am not going to be happy at playing tech support guru for people who bought a Windows 7 ready laptop that crashes often.
I'm pretty ticked about having to play tech support on family member and friend's computers to deal with wireless router incompatibilities and trying to get vista to run acceptably on "Vista ready" laptops that I really wish Microsoft would own up and give us realistic guidelines for what hardware their software WILL actually run on.
Seriously, I'm as rabidly anti-windows as they come, but isn't this a little unfair?
Well, has Microsoft ever released something with poor driver support before? NVIDIA and Vista come to mind.... But check this out from TFA:
We've almost lost count of the number of blue screens we've seen in the CRN Test Center during the Windows 7 evaluation process. In some cases, PCs we've used just won't upgrade at all to Windows 7. In others, important functions have to be disabled or eliminated to get it to install as an upgrade. While Microsoft has assured the world that if the hardware works with Windows Vista it will work with Windows 7, the reality is that is misleading at best. We've seen with our own eyes in the Test Center lab that systems we could upgrade from XP to Vista refused to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7.
That's a real problem, from that it sounds like Windows 7 is a pig. However, if Microsoft would be honest about the situation they might be able to save themselves. E.g., Apple has no qualms about dropping support of their newest software on older machines. However, what happens if they lie about it and say that older machines are supported and they aren't? (As they are apparently doing.) You can say that's unfair too, but again Microsoft when and lied about what computers Vista would run (well) on, so I'd say that experience teaches us that a little healthy skepticism is warranted.
The same thing I said last time someone said this to me: prove it. I'm not trolling here, and I don't think it's beyond what Apple is capable of, but I need more proof than your assertions before I believe you. Do you have any evidence, or at least an example bug, of when this has happened?
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I would actually prefer Battletoad over Xenu or Vista... but hey maybe I'm just biased against cults and unsuccessful operating systems and am not caught up on the nuances of what precisely a "battletoad" is.
What I don't get is why anyone would lobby hard to name a space station module after a space ship. I could see naming the next generation launch vehicle Serenity, but a module on a space station? Meh.
The last time this happened, a whole bunch of people lobbied NASA to have a space shuttle named after the Enterprise. What they got was the practice shuttle, that never actually flew in space. I would think it would be more memorable if they lobbied to get an actual shuttle that flew missions named after their favorite ship. Although, in retrospect, that shuttle will probably be seen by many more people than the actual shuttles since it is now sitting in the Udvar-Hazey center at Dulles (or, the Uday-Qusay center as my father affectionately calls it). So maybe it was worth it.
Hah, well at least they have trains that can be late. In the U.S., congress has determined that they would rather subsidize highways and airplanes than trains. For example, our national rail system doesn't even have a dedicated track. It's forced to borrow lines from freight rail, so the Amtrak frequently gets delayed because it has to pull over to let a freight train pass. This was one of the reasons the Accela is such a disaster, the congress refused to give it it's own lines, so it had to satisfy the safety rules for a collision with a freight train. The end result was that the Acela is so heavy it shakes itself apart, that's when it can get up to top speed, which it usually can't because it runs on shitty freight lines designed for 30 mph or so.
Of course, the amtrak is so limited in the number of places it goes that few americans have actually used it to go somewhere. The only time I ever used it on a regular basis was when I lived in California and would head down to San Francisco for the weekend -- the traffic was so bad and the parking in SF so horrendous that it was much easier to do that and take the BART or the MUNI everywhere.
I live in Atlanta now and the main "train station" for this metropolis of 5.6 million people is about the size of just one of the minor stops for a city in europe, there's not even a comparison to one of the hub stations like grand central or union station. It still blows my mind whenever I see it.
Hahahah, that song is awesome! Nice link!
I'll chime in here, the AI in MTW2 did some things a little more cleverly, but for the most part, you could still beat the pants off it flanking with your cavalry. Oh, and I had to micromanage my troops in MTW2 all the time as well, the grouping just sucked ass: not only do you get misalignments like what somebody above mentioned, the autorotation of the line was hideous, I don't know how many battles I had to hurriedly select all and then hit stop because one side my line was advancing while the other was retreating. Annoying like hell. I was considering getting ETW, but since reading these posts, I think I'll pass.
No, it isn't. E.g., the FBI copyright warning should be unskippable. You just got lucky with the DVD player you bought, or are playing it using software that doesn't care on your computer (vlc, kaffeine, etc.). There's some kind of "do not skip" flag to which most, but not all, DVD players pay attention. My hardware DVD player will not skip previews or advertisements, but when I watch the same DVDs on my computer, they can be bypassed.
For me the issue is not the technical merits of the blu-ray discs, it's the fact that as a distribution format for movies, they are loaded up with the most asinine DRM that I could possibly imagine. I recently built a new home PC and thought I'd finally take the plunge and buy the newest media and I got a blu-ray player for it. Since I don't own a television, I was looking forward to watching blu-ray movies on my monitor. As I discovered however, my monitor is DVI so I wasn't allowed to actually watch my legally purchased blu-ray movies on my legally purchased blu-ray player. Wow... To boot, I like to run linux and I couldn't get dumphd to run so to watch movies I have to buy each one, copy it to the hard drive while stripping it of DRM using the windows program anyDVD, and then I can watch it using linux. Wow, what a load of crap! Somebody needs to take a class action suit against whoever is pushing this HDCP nonsense.
While there isn't any real connection between blu-ray as a distribution medium and blu-ray as a storage medium, if I find the standard blu-ray movies repulsive, I don't care what the technical merits of the disc are, I'm going to avoid it like the plague. I swear I'm not buying another blu-ray disc until this DRM HDCP virtual engine nonsense is removed (or reverse-engineered) and the movies play on linux and play easily.
Haha, amazing, you're absolutely right. Both the older and newer models are using shared memory. According to this, the NVIDIA 9400M should blow the that intel 950 out of the water. You might actually be able to play games on the mini now.
I agree, in particular I want to see if twice as much shared DDR3 is any slower than dedicated DDR2 for the GPU. When this was announced yesterday, there were a huge number of people insisting that the graphics processors were a step downward because the graphics memory wasn't dedicated any more. Since I'm using DDR3 in my new home built PC, I suspect that the speed of the DDR3 will offset any advantage by using dedicated DDR2 memory, but no one really agreed with me. Of course, they couldn't prove me wrong either, they just kept insisting over and over again that "shared memory" sucks, but I'm not so sure in this particular comparison which would be better.
How about you read my comment again? Here, I'll quote it for you, "...or what apple expects the exchange rates to do." Did it ever occur to you that Apple might be expecting the dollar to rebound?
Why is it important? Show me the benchmark that twice as much shared DDR3 memory is slower than dedicated DDR2.
Actually, it's totally relevant because if the U.S. prices are staying the same, but the foreign ones are going up, it's because of the exchange rates, or what apple expects the exchange rates to do. The U.S. dollar sucks right now and europeans should be paying much more for U.S. products. I was in europe last summer and it cost me a tremendous amount of money, just because of the exchange rate.
whereas the old one had
So you're getting twice as much graphics memory that is also faster graphics memory. Also, the intel GMA is onboard video the same as the 9400M. As for the price increase, it's only overseas prices that have gone up, the american ones are the same. That means it's probably just the exchange rates that's determining the european price.
Grandparent has it totally wrong about the prices, at least on the mini. There was no increase in price, but this is slashdot and everybody loves to hate Apple. The new ones are $599 and $799, which are exactly the same as the old one, if you don't believe the newegg, look at the wikipedia page on them it has all the prices and specs for the old models. Also, as you can see here, Newegg has one of the old models for sale still. They price it at $594, according to wikipedia it's the lower priced model with a smaller hard drive.
The big differences I see is a larger hard drive (120 GB vs. 80GB on the basic), Firewire 800 on the new one vs. 400 on the old one (!!! Looks like firewire ain't dead yet!), display port video out + mini-DVI vs. just mini-DVI, a bump in the processor up to 2 GHz from 1.83 GHz, DDR3 memory vs. DDR2 in the old one (which is nice), and finally the new one has NVIDIA 9400M vs. Intel GMA 950. Oh, and the front side bus is 1066 MHz now vs. 667 MHz previously.
Overall it looks like a nice upgrade on the system.
I immediately thought of old toys, like my precious ships for the star wars action figures, the imperial shuttle or b-wing whose plastic is all faded and yellowed. Now I can run around the room with them making laser noises and re-enact scenes from ROTJ just like I did when I was eight. Awesome!
They aren't all that bright: in one survey it was found that 58% cheated during medical school. Personally, I find the most irritating thing about doctors and dentists is their smugness. I'm not sure if they are trained to act that way or if that's just the innate tendency for the type of people medical school attracts. Either way, it makes it a annoying frustration to go for a doctor's visit. E.g., last time at the dentist I was complaining that they were x-raying my teeth too often and I was worried about leukemia and they actually told me that it's no more radiation than a cell phone. That might be true, but it's the WAVELENGTH of the radiation that causes the issues because the x-ray is short enough to break bonds in DNA. Either he was an idiot or he thought I was. I'm not going back.
Hey, thought you might be interested in how to turn that off. The hint is here. It's a two line command:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE
killall Dock
It's one of the many hidden preferences of OS X.
To whomever modded me troll: There was no trolling sentiment in the above post and you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
You can delete Safari from Mac OS X. It's easy, you just drag the application to the trash and then empty the trash. It doesn't "come back" later like with Windows. A lot of the libraries that Safari uses are used by the operating system, but those are system libraries and are used by other things as well (e.g., quicktime), and the application itself is removable. THAT is the problem with what Microsoft has done, it's not just that they've included a default browser or that they are a monopoly, it's that they've made it so that you can't remove the default browser and they've used their monopoly status to leverage that. They purposely built the explorer and the internet explorer into the same program so that you can't remove the browser functionality without borking the whole operating system. On the Mac, if I change my default browser to Firefox, if I then click on a system-wide internet link (like the "learn more" button on the .mac preference pane), it will open with the default browser not safari. On Windows, it often ignores your default browser for web-related tasks and uses IE.
That's like the frog in the cooking pot saying, "oh good, the water only got one degree warmer, it's not boiling." A user's life might be better, but as someone who knows what decent privilege escalation and user controls actually look like, I would say that UAC is still a joke, but that joke would not be funny. Do yourself a favor and use a different operating system for awhile, it'll open your mind I promise. You may still continue to use Windows, but you'll at least recognize that it has flaws and could be better.
Oh and it's got nothing the OS not having a browser, the OS having a browser is fine, the PROBLEM is when the OS won't let you uninstall the default browser and use a different one. On Mac OS X, I can delete Safari and the OS does not reinstall the way Windows does. On linux, I can remove the firefox package and put in midori, or I can remove konqueror and put in kazehakase.
You got modded funny, but I'll bite. Why did it take five and a half years for Microsoft to release Vista, and when they finally got around to it, they released software that was so bizarre that they are not even re-using the name for the subsequent release even though it looks to be only an incremental improvement? It's because they're a monopoly. If the government had forced Microsoft to stop leveraging the OEMs, my guess is that Vista would have been released sooner and would have been of higher quality because the OEMs would have been able to threaten to switch to a different operating system unless Microsoft delivered a usable OS. As it is, Microsoft could do things like introducing all the DRM crap in Vista because they don't care about the customer, because usually the customer has no practical choice but to buy their products. Linux adoption would have been improved right now if the government had done something. Also I bet we'd have a native linux version of Office already if MS had been split up.
Well first Zeus needs to transform himself into an animal like a swan, or a bull, and then he seduces some comely greek lass (hopefully a goddess in her own right) and impregnates her, and if you're lucky then the offspring (you) will be a female and of a goddess type rather than a mere mortal. Of course, Aphrodite was born because Cronus cut off Ouranos' genitals and threw them into the sea. The genitals floated around in the sea for a long time turned into Aphrodite, so that's another way to be a greek goddess. Oh, and there's Hera who was eaten by her father because he thought one of his children would betray him. Luckily for her Rhia gave him some herbs that made him barf. I suppose that's better than the "floating genitals" method of conception though...
Oh wait... that title doesn't say greek does it? Nevermind.
Actually it's a bit more than that. Last week I just got to watch a vintage 450 MHz blue and white G3 from 1999 run their newest OS, leopard (10.5). Granted, it ran like shit, all the fancy window animations were slow, but it did run and was usable. I wonder if anyone has tried putting Vista on a 450 MHz machine?
I run beta software all the time, I'm typing this using Safari 4, and I used to run Debian unstable, so yeah okay I know beta software is well, beta quality. BUT... Microsoft is a company that has demonstrated repeatedly that it will release software that isn't ready, just as it did with Vista, WinME, & Windows95. How do you know that this time it will be any different? You don't know that. My point was that give their track record, and let's be honest, they must be under even more pressure to release Windows 7 than to release Vista, that we should be skeptical. Sure, we can all sit back and say "oh it's only beta, what's a few kernel panics between friends?" But when they release this thing and it doesn't run, I know I for one am not going to be happy at playing tech support guru for people who bought a Windows 7 ready laptop that crashes often.
I'm pretty ticked about having to play tech support on family member and friend's computers to deal with wireless router incompatibilities and trying to get vista to run acceptably on "Vista ready" laptops that I really wish Microsoft would own up and give us realistic guidelines for what hardware their software WILL actually run on.
Well, has Microsoft ever released something with poor driver support before? NVIDIA and Vista come to mind.... But check this out from TFA:
That's a real problem, from that it sounds like Windows 7 is a pig. However, if Microsoft would be honest about the situation they might be able to save themselves. E.g., Apple has no qualms about dropping support of their newest software on older machines. However, what happens if they lie about it and say that older machines are supported and they aren't? (As they are apparently doing.) You can say that's unfair too, but again Microsoft when and lied about what computers Vista would run (well) on, so I'd say that experience teaches us that a little healthy skepticism is warranted.
The same thing I said last time someone said this to me: prove it. I'm not trolling here, and I don't think it's beyond what Apple is capable of, but I need more proof than your assertions before I believe you. Do you have any evidence, or at least an example bug, of when this has happened?