Apple controls the hardware AND the software for a good reason. It just works. I can’t remember the last time anything crashed on my Mac. I am willing to spend money for top quality and I usually avoid hacks.
Sent from my iPad > On May 1, 2020, at 7:51 PM, M. George <m.matthew.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ray, I'm sure you know this, but you are simply running each OS as a > virtual machine using the Intel VT technology (not an Apple or Microsoft > thing at all). The reason you can't run the Mac OS on standard Intel PC > hard ware is due to Apple's super irritating proprietary ROM etc... > hardware signatures... trickery. Apple goes to extreme lengths to ensure > that their OS only will run on their hardware to lock you into buying their > hardware to use their OS. Folks will hack and get older versions of the Mac > OS working over time on non Apple PC hardware, but then a new Mac OS update > comes out and it then breaks running their OS on non Mac / Apple hardware > (constant cat and mouse game). I'm not saying they should or shouldn't do > that, but that's just what they do. So yeah, you can run a Windows OS on > your Mac hardware because #1, it's Intel based hardware and Apple finally > adopted a standard intel based platform etc...years ago when they finally > dumped the IBM Power PC cpu's and their terrible/horrible preemptive OS at > the time (amen! it saved Apple!). Jobs brought them back to the modern OS > era by going down the Free BSD OS path, virtually saving them from > bankruptcy. (not to mention Microsoft investing 100+ million in Apple back > then to keep them alive) > > So yeah, on your Mac / Apple PC hardware, if you can't live without the Mac > OS and you are willing to pony up for the price of their hardware, you can > still run the later versions of the Mac OS and also run virtual versions of > Windows and or boot directly into Windows on your Mac hardware, because > Microsoft doesn't lock their OS down to a specific manufactures Intel based > PC hardware. So don't thank Apple for running Windows on your Mac / Apple > hardware, thank Microsoft for keeping their OS pretty much hardware > independent and not forcing you to run their OS on one company's hardware! > > Those of us that use Windows as their primary OS, do the same thing as > you... you can virtualize and run multiple copies of Windows and other > operating systems at the same time like Linux etc... we have been doing > that for years of course and yes, we can run hacked versions of the Mac OS > too if we want to continually fight Apple in their efforts to lock their > Free BSD based OS release after release after rele ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
