Ok, but why is there a deafening silence from the Ubuntu users?
Were the CDs Eacoss gave out put to waste?
And Peter, I am still waiting for that screenshot.
--
Hari Kurup
On Jul 7, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Patrick Okui wrote:
On Friday 07 July 2006 13:15, Hari Kurup wrote:
On Jul 7, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Henry M Kirya wrote:
Financial factor: No. Very pocket unfriendly.
And now that MACOSX runs on the intel platform
When are we getting that pirated version so we can get the
feel on our good
ole Intel boxes ???
Fat chance of that happening.
The Intel Apple is very proprietary.
Illegal - Yes[1]. Impossible - No. People have been able to
bypass the TPM chip in the Intel Macs since some time last
year[2] - see http://www.osx86project.org et al.
As for price, Linux/UNIX wins that one hands down - but at $129
for OS X, I think windows is more expensive[3] - yes there is
the Mac hardware catch.
As for the hardware ... now that Apple computers have Intel chips
in them, they will have to justify the premium on their
hardware.[4] I believe their current offers are about the same
price as similarly speced machines from Lenovo (thinkpads) and
Sony (viaos)[5] though you can probably get a cheaper Dell or
Acer with roughly the same hardware specs.
In short, if all you want is OS X and have no need for Core Duo
processors, ATI video cards et al, then it isn't worth it. If
that's the kind of hardware you'd buy ... then I wouldn't be so
sure.
--
patrick
[1] well - i'm not a lawyer so there's probably a way to justify
that install if you actually own a retail copy of OS X.
[2] speaking of which - the TPM chips in those macs are worrying
some people because of their "big brother" potential...
[3] well... not that many people I know actually purchased their
copy of windows...
[4] and no, I'm not trying to start off another (religious)
discussion of if the move to intel was worth it or not.
[5] except in one major department i can think of... That
Thinkpad or Viao will probably be able to do higher resolutions
on the same screen size.
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