Apple has finally released Mac OS X 10.6.2, the latest version of its Snow Leopard operating system, and be prepared for a massive update for your Mac: 473MB. There's a lot of stuff in here, and among other things, it includes a fix for the guest account data loss bug.
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Well, when Vista came out and Microsoft had restrictions limited virtualization of the OS to only Business and Ultimate versions, many Mac users complained, despite it only hitting you if you ran Vista in VMWare or Parallels.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/11326/
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67744
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/45000...
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I don't think the Apple fanbois would cry foul. They believe a pretty UNIX and ultra-expensive x86 kit made by Apple is a guarantee for computing nirvana.
It would quickly reduce the numbers of Windows people who take a chance with Mac. Now you can buy a Mac and OS X and if it doesn't work out, you can always run Windows on your Mac. If the only thing that runs on a Mac is OS X, the prospective pool of buyers would reduce significantly.
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Actually, the computing nirvana comes from OS X, not its UNIX root, nor the real hardware (which happens not to be ultra-expensive compared to the market). If OS X were based upon the NT Kernel, but the user experience were the same, I’m pretty sure no Mac user would complain.
If you don’t understand why, simply move forwards and don’t waste time commenting nonsense.
And if you don’t think that Mac hardware + software brings any benefit, why are you reading all these comments and taking the time to comment?
On a side note, this article is bull*hit, who cares about Atom. It’s like crying that Win7 doesn’t work on PPC…
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Give it time. They ran Be Inc. into the ground by means of a protection racket ("If you install BeOS on a single desktop computer we'll stop selling Windows to you altogether"); I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they started limiting certain hardware configurations and then turned it around on Apple. Imagine the advertisement:
**Megan goes into a store to buy a computer, starts looking at a Mac.**
Megan: "I can get one of these and have the best of both worlds!"
Salesman: "Haven't you heard? Windows doesn't work on a Mac anymore, something about incompatible hardware." (notice it's NEVER the software's fault...)
Megan: "How awful of those Apple engineers to lock out software! You know, I heard they started it with that nifty Atom processor."
**Megan walks out with an HP laptop that barely qualifies to run Windows 7 Premium**
Since it's in the vein of the previous "unscripted" Microsoft commercials, it could have a huge impact on Apple's sales and stock price before Apple could refute the claims.
Granted, even Microsoft wouldn't dare make a commercial as bad as my pathetic excuse for writing (and "Megan" never seemed smart enough to even know what an Atom is). Then again, they've made much worse--Seinfeld anyone?
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2007-11-04
I really wish MS would put a clause in their EULA forbidding Windows to be installed on Macs. You just wonder how quickly all the apple fanboys would start crying foul. And I'm quite certain Apple and Jobs would try some way or the other to try to force MS to allow it again (anti-trust lawsuit or something). IMO bootcamp and being able to parallel install Windows has helped Apple to gain quite a significant market share. Even better would be if MS prevented Windows to run within bootcamp.
I'd love to get my popcorn out for that.