OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 18:08 UTC, submitted by poundsmack

Anyone who hangs around on websites with information about installing Mac OS X on non-Apple labelled computers has probably already encountered this report, but it's newsworthy anyway. The upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 will remove support for the Intel Atom line of processors from Mac OS X.

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RE[5]: What took them so long?

by wirespot on Fri 6th Nov 2009 22:42 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: What took them so long?"

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A funny thing about Windows, it's much freer for me to use than MacOS X.

You can give you copy of OS X to someone else if you uninstall it from the Mac it was on and you pass the DVD along. You can't do that with Windows in the OEM variant, not legally.

And Windows is limited to x86, just like OS X is limited to certain processors.

And let's figure in the fact that Windows comes with copy protection (all that Genuine Advantage and activation stuff), whereas OS X does not.

How is Windows more free to use?

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