On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 20:03 -0600, Alex Barnes wrote: > 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??? > Alex, Other manufacturers manage to have user replaceable batteries with similar form factors. It is not the i7 and Sandy Bridge that are the problems. I said they made a lot of bad hardware decisions, but keeping up with the latest CPUs is not among them. You ought to read up on the EFI and TPM, since you don't seem to understand them. Apple picked versions of Intel's motherboards that only allow code that has been properly signed to run. The issue is who decides on properly. Apple allows OSX to run, and releases enablers to allow Linux to run. But, with a firmware update, and those do come down from time to time, they could change the signatures needed and lock out all the old enablers. All it takes is for someone at Apple to decide they don't want Linux or whatever running on Apple hardware. I am not saying Apple has done this yet. I am not saying I want to run Linux on Apple x86 hardware right now. I am saying I don't want to put myself in a position where I have this uncertainty. If I buy a computer, I will buy one where I decide what runs on it, not Apple. I called Apple hardware treacherous. I did not come up with that term. It is widely used, because Apple sells hardware that obeys Apple and not the person who owns the computer.
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