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[6]: What took them so long?
by aesiamun on Sat 7th Nov 2009 17:21
in reply to "RE[5]: What took them so long?"
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They dont tell me that I can't run it on any particular OEM hardware, I can just buy a copy of Windows and run it on my hardware...and I'm free to run it on a mac, a dell, hp, sony, even my whitebox computer that I built.
That's freer than anything Apple allows you to do with OSX. A copy of Windows can be activated a certain number of times on different hardware, so I can give my copy to someone else and erase my installation.
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2006-06-21
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?