With all due respect sir, when running a bona fide, registered copy of
a MS OS under Boot Camp in a dedicated disk partition, the Apple
machine, having Intel CPU and Intel Peripheral ICs (with Apple
supplied drivers - that work, by the way) becomes, for all practical
purposes, a Windows PC. The only peculiarity is the Firewire hotfixes,
that some claim are required because MS intentionally tries to mess up
Firewire use. I won't comment further on that, but IMO, people using
Apple machines should be considered mainstream. I understand the
market share issue and, I also understand Lemming behavior.
Bob, KF6BC
On Aug 6, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Gerald Youngblood wrote:
Dear Joe,
I sincerely appreciate your frustration with the dominance of
Microsoft. We
often feel the same way. However, as a business we have to place
our finite
resources where they provide the best return. Here are a few facts
regarding PC market share for the first part of 2009.
According to IDC, Apple's market share from 7.4% in 2008 to 7.6% for
the
first quarter of 2009.
http://www.macworld.com/article/140029/2009/04/pcshipments.html
According to NetApplications, GNU/Linux now accounts for 1.02% of
computer
desktops.
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3818696/Linux-Desktop-Mark
et-Share-Greater-Than-One-Percent.htm
That leaves about 92% for Microsoft's desktop market share.
Unfortunately, the economics do not work to undertake the huge and
expensive
effort that would be required to convert PowerSDR(TM) to native Mac
OS.
However, a number of customers are successfully running PowerSDR under
Bootcamp for both FLEX-5000s and FLEX-3000s. There are customer
supplied
articles in the knowledge base that cover how to do the installations.
Let me also clarify that FlexEdge(TM) is not an "out of sight
portion of the
reflector." FlexEdge is available to all who want to participate.
FlexEdge
is the leading edge developer reflector for new software development
and
system configurations. It is where all the cool new stuff is going
on. We
separated the site to minimize confusion between officially released
and
supported configurations and those that are still experimental.
Overall it
has been a very successful change.
I trust that helps in understanding FlexRadio's position on the
matter. We
will continue to evaluate how we can be of better help to those who
want to
use the Mac platform.
Sincerely,
Gerald
Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR
President
FlexRadio Systems
13091 Pond Springs Rd. #250
Austin, TX 78729
Phone: 512-535-4713
www.flex-radio.com
"Tune in excitement!" (TM)
-----Original Message-----
From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Joe Rodriguez
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:25 PM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: [Flexradio] UNSUPPORTED... WHY BOTHER?
Dear Mr Systems Administrator & List Manager,
For the last year and a half I've struggled with the thought of
purchasing a Flex radio. But the problem is WINDOWS... and I've have
had the good sense to convert to Apple OS X and the computer problems
have been reduced by over 95%. Bootcamp under OS X .5 has stabilized
the use of Windows XP for the remaining applications that are required
by this house hold. The marketing staff at Flex have been supportive
as they can about the Windows/ Mac dilemma and there seems to be
support for those of use that refuse to subscribe to your Windows or
Vista and God forbid "7". So In your humble opinion we should be
vanquished to an out of site portion of the reflector not to disturb
your Vista discussions. Not supported like "DRM" discussions that seem
to be OK with you. Well count me out of the reflector, Count me out of
the Flex radio plans Timmy. Maybe the rumors of a prominent Japanese
radio company planning and SDR radio can bring you to your senses.
KD4INV
Folks,
As per the FlexRadio Users Reflector description
(http://www.flex-radio.com/Support.aspx?topic=Reflector_Description
), any discussion regarding the operation of FlexRadio's products on
unsupported hardware, such as the iMacs needs to be moved to the
FlexEdge Reflector.
Thank You.
-Tim
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FlexRadio Internet Systems Administrator & List Moderator
W4TME
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