On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:59:02PM +0000, petard wrote: > > If software companies were responsible for bugs in hardware that they do not > manufacture, MS would be in much more trouble than it is already.
Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and they've pretty much always been negligent about making sure that other vendor's hardware worked with theirs and/or their OS. Just sticking in a new hard drive gives you error messages (which you can ignore and bypass) when upgrading the OS. You get the idea that they want you to only buy their hardware. In fact the whole OS-X thing is like that -- they deliberately, after having all the betas running on older powermacs, wrote the production code to exclude anything but new G-3 based machines. Don't get me wrong, I like Apple and their hardware, but some of their policies suck. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
