Star Psystar Wants to "Reveal" Protection Measures in Leopard
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Oct 2009 22:50 UTC
Law and Order Remember the motions for a summary judgement filed by Apple and Psystar earlier this week? Large parts of them were censored per Apple's request. These censored parts detailed the protection measures Apple put in place in Leopard to prevent it from being installed on non-Apple labelled computers. Psystar filed a motion a few days ago asking the judge to uncensor the information.
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Bobthearch
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2006-01-27

Wrong. Apple does the design and engineering for every one of their computers. The manufacturing of those computers is handed off to a third party, a practice done my most computer companies.


Exactly what hardware does Apple design and engineer, other than the case and motherboard mods that I mentioned above?
The hard drive? Nope.
Graphics? Nope.
Sound? Nope.
Processor? Memory? Optical drives? Nope. Nope. Nope.

What Apple really designs is software. The operating system, drivers, applications...

Not that has anything to do with the Psystar case one way or the other...

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KingRocky Member since:
2009-07-30

Exactly what hardware does Apple design and engineer, other than the case and motherboard mods that I mentioned above?
The hard drive? Nope.
Graphics? Nope.
Sound? Nope.
Processor? Memory? Optical drives? Nope. Nope. Nope.


Apple designs their own ASICS, ICs, SOCs, EEPROMs, display interfaces, video cameras, touch pads and logic boards, among other things.

Unlike a company like HP/Compaq, who will take an off-the-shelf motherboard from a Taiwanese manufacturer, put in a custom BIOS, stuff it in a generic case by another Taiwanese manufacturer and call it an HP. I used to do in-home service for HP/Compaq, and I can tell you from personal experience that the motherboard failure rates were obscenely high in their consumer machines.

While the peripheral components are indeed manufactured by third parties, the core of the computer, the logic board, is designed and engineered by Apple.

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