On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apple tells you what is *supported* according to their testing. The > physical capabilities might be greater but they're not actually > supported insofar as Apple's testing, service and repair is concerned. > Engineering often builds in more stuff than the service and support > organization is willing to take on ...
Just occurred to me to add: Another reason Apple lists what they test, rather than the physical capabilities, is that sometimes the physical capabilities were there but there were no products that could take advantage of them at the time that the product development and testing were done. This means that, for instance, a particular RAM slot and memory controller which might theoretically be capable of handling 16G RAM loads were built into the product, but at the time this was done there were no available RAM modules of that capacity to test with. So Apple does not tell users "supports 16G RAM" when a) 16G RAM isn't available for use, and b) they can't test that 16G RAM will actually work correctly, without negative (customer satisfaction decreasing) side effects. In times after when the development, testing and documentation for the system have brought such RAM products to market, the new, larger RAM might work splendidly ... but it also might not. It's up to the third party community to determine whether such after-development products work, and take the risk if they don't. Many other companies' products go out the door listing a lot of theoretical capabilities that were never tested because they weren't available for users to take advantage of. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't... :-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
