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Originally Posted by Sapporo Guy
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However, I do believe that Apple OS's have been on greater range of CPU manufacturers than M$ has.
M$ basically Intel, AMD IDT-3C, Cyrix, IBM, VIA, TI, STsomething
Apple IBM, Motorola, Intel and now own ?
For Apple closed = good 
For M$ open = good
Now what were to happen if the opposite where true?
Being a hobbist and being able to hack your own system is lots of fun but should this always be the case? Are you saying Macs, ipods/itouches & iphones aren't hackable from home?
let's thow in the towel for the HP slate too ... they needed to buy Palm just to be cool and to be able to compete. What HP needed was palms IP portfolio
hmmm, I guess rising your expectations and having you delay your purchases long enough to ward off some pesky competitors only to realize that what you are now getting is not really what was being hyped or just hyped is way better than having your products EOL cycle end abruptly but yet still work and have "plenty of life in them". Are you talking about the ipad? |
Wintel systems are by no means perfect. There is a distinct difference though. When I walk out of a Best Buy, Radio Shack, CompUSA, or any local computer store with a video card, sound card, DVD drive, card reader, network/USB/firewire/serial adapter cards, or SAS card I can easily bet that when I plug it into my computer I can get drivers for W2k, XP, Vista or Win7 for the device.