Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th May 2007 23:21 UTC
"I have been using Mac OS X as my primary OS for almost a year now, but last night I switched back. What spurred it is that my Mac OS X partition crashed and it wouldn't boot back into the OS - I used rescue tools and drive scanners but it appears that the partition just disappeared. I booted into a much smaller NTFS partition and put the Vista install disk in."
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Member since:2006-01-22
Eh? Mac OS X comes pre-installed when you purchase a new Mac from Apple. The Developer Tools are not pre-installed; you have to install them from the DVD provided if you want them.
I'd agree that many users do wipe the pre-install and do their own custom Mac OS X install, but...
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You understand that when you buy a Mac, the OS isn't installed? You have to install it yourself.
*Every* Mac user is able to install the OS. That says something about the confidence Apple has in their installation procedure.