Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 18:08 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Mac OS X 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[3]: What took them so long?
by wirespot on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 21:55 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: What took them so long?"
wirespot
Member since:
2006-06-21

People are sheep, yes, but only to a certain extent. They don't want to feel like sheep.


And yet "people" have been using Windows for more than a decade, an OS from a company who walked on corpses to achieve the monopoly they enjoy today. It got so far that there are people out there who think "Windows = PC" . Baa.

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fretinator Member since:
2005-07-06

I agree. I enjoy my OpenBSD laptop. I just feel the need to stick up for the sheep once in a while. They are nice folks!

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aesiamun Member since:
2005-06-29

I don't see Microsoft telling me what hardware I can and can't run it on. I don't see them telling me what intel compatible processors I can use. A funny thing about Windows, it's much freer for me to use than MacOS X.

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wirespot Member since:
2006-06-21

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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wirespot Member since:
2006-06-21

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


You can give your 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 and Microsoft keeping an eye on you), whereas OS X does not.

How is Windows more free to use?

Edited 2009-11-06 22:57 UTC

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