Just because Steve Jobs is too damn stubborn to give one of the Largest Consumer Entertainment/Uses for a computing device (which is Gaming if you don't know) doesn't make it a bad OS just a "very good narrow minded " OS. So it is nice that Apple at least gives it customers who do love gaming an option to install an OS that does give Gamers some love.Poor Stevey. If he only new the rush of adoption Macs would have if he supported Gamers on the hardware side (mid tier Pro or Very High Consumer model) as well as the software side (Give Developers Apple's version of a DirectX or OpenGL and give the game developers some love which in turn will give Mac users and Gamers who want to go to Mac but don't want to hassel with Multiple OSes some love also).Or maybe that is why Apple doesn't Support Gamers. The burden of all those switchers (assuming Apple did it right here folks) would put a poor strain on their hardware and even software development they prefer to just let Microsoft be the game OS and Apple can stay Small.
Just in case you haven't realized bovox... "Upgradeability" isn't a selling point for most any OEM PC manufacturer... the extremely vast majority of computer users don't give a f**k that you can actually open up your PC and incrementally upgrade it... in fact, from a business point of view, Apple is avoiding a lot of customer service issues by making Macs fixed hardware. Not to mention that this point is the exact reason why Apples (running either Windows or Mac OS) are considerably more reliable than their competition.
If you're implying that you need at least one operating system, it's not true. You can run a computer with no operating system, just think of playing games on a Commodore 64. All you need is a kernel that provides a standard system-level API, the operating system could be pretty much hardware-independent. (e.g, when creating a linux distribution for a new architecture, most of the porting work is the kernel. The rest is just recompiled)
i love the troll-tastic arguments of "OMFG IT CANT PLAY GAMEZZZZZZZZZ"...if we can play both mac and pc games that argument is no longer validEPIC FAILmac pro pcs offer power users upgradable aspects to work on their rig......so you can put in that new card you want...EPIC FAILseriously, 18 year olds that have an entire view based off of imac ads on the internet should own one or age about 5 years before posting "OMFG NO GAMEZ OR RAM UPGRADZ LAWLW!"
tippisAug 19, 2007
@arayaush:Moving the map in OpenTTD? ;)
dragonopolisAug 19, 2007
Just because Steve Jobs is too damn stubborn to give one of the Largest Consumer Entertainment/Uses for a computing device (which is Gaming if you don't know) doesn't make it a bad OS just a "very good narrow minded " OS. So it is nice that Apple at least gives it customers who do love gaming an option to install an OS that does give Gamers some love.Poor Stevey. If he only new the rush of adoption Macs would have if he supported Gamers on the hardware side (mid tier Pro or Very High Consumer model) as well as the software side (Give Developers Apple's version of a DirectX or OpenGL and give the game developers some love which in turn will give Mac users and Gamers who want to go to Mac but don't want to hassel with Multiple OSes some love also).Or maybe that is why Apple doesn't Support Gamers. The burden of all those switchers (assuming Apple did it right here folks) would put a poor strain on their hardware and even software development they prefer to just let Microsoft be the game OS and Apple can stay Small.
Closed AccountAug 20, 2007
oh my god, once you go two-finger right click you'll never go back! It's honestly amazing. I can't even use laptops with two buttons anymore.
bedrockoAug 20, 2007
Just in case you haven't realized bovox... "Upgradeability" isn't a selling point for most any OEM PC manufacturer... the extremely vast majority of computer users don't give a f**k that you can actually open up your PC and incrementally upgrade it... in fact, from a business point of view, Apple is avoiding a lot of customer service issues by making Macs fixed hardware. Not to mention that this point is the exact reason why Apples (running either Windows or Mac OS) are considerably more reliable than their competition.
Closed AccountAug 20, 2007
If you're implying that you need at least one operating system, it's not true. You can run a computer with no operating system, just think of playing games on a Commodore 64. All you need is a kernel that provides a standard system-level API, the operating system could be pretty much hardware-independent. (e.g, when creating a linux distribution for a new architecture, most of the porting work is the kernel. The rest is just recompiled)
slipgreenAug 20, 2007
i love the troll-tastic arguments of "OMFG IT CANT PLAY GAMEZZZZZZZZZ"...if we can play both mac and pc games that argument is no longer validEPIC FAILmac pro pcs offer power users upgradable aspects to work on their rig......so you can put in that new card you want...EPIC FAILseriously, 18 year olds that have an entire view based off of imac ads on the internet should own one or age about 5 years before posting "OMFG NO GAMEZ OR RAM UPGRADZ LAWLW!"
sweanAug 20, 2007
Apple will never have my money, period.
dandoniaAug 28, 2007
I really want a mac
jammyjtAug 29, 2007
Dan, you can borrow my MacBook Pro for a week and i'll have your Dell. ( :P u wish)
guyinthechairOct 10, 2007
Then it's your hard drive, not your partition. Partitions are virtual, not hard coded into your hard drive.