The reason why the battery can't be replaced is because it is so large, lasts 10, 7 or 8 hours depending on your model and can take up to 1000 cycles. How does Steve Jobs decide what runs on Mac OS X??? An iMac with a Radeon 6970 coupled to a Sandy Bridge Core i7 is a bad hardware decision???
> Apple's x86 hardware uses Intel TPM. There are some at Apple who deny > this, but the fact that Apple releases enablers to allow other operating > systems to run seems to indicate that the TPM is really there and > implemented. Now, I could turn out to be wrong about this, and I would > be happy to be proven wrong about this. > > Absent sufficient evidence on the lack of TPM, I have no interest > whatsoever in Apple x86 hardware. I have the quaint belief that when I > buy a computer, I get to decide what runs on it. I am accused of being > insufficiently deferential to his Steveness, and I accept that as true. > I won't use a computer where someone else can turn it off at will and > decide what I can and cannot run. OSX is quite nice, but the hardware > decisions of his Steveness have been pretty bad lately, anyway. For > just one complaint of many, what kind of idiot would design a laptop or > media player where you can't replace the battery? > Have a good day, > Ralph -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
