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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Apple critically relies on a level of nieveity, totally reliant on the way they do things that allows no deviation from the apple way, you are an apple fan-boy or we will trash you.
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Well..that's a reasonably naive statement, sorry.
Actually, they are ultra-flexible in architecture, and you can run anything you like - under whatever operating system you like. They're a UNIX-based box on high-end Intel hardware, so you can do almost anything with them. It's Windows that traps you.
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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Anyway, proprietry apple hardware/software boxes work very well (eg iphone, or MAC I guess), for general everyday use, by the rules, for that they shine.
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"General, every day use?" Who told you that the only software they'd run was Apple-proprietary? LOL! Come on! It's nothing like the iPhone in that regard. They are being used by some of the most demanding users there are - in publishing, science, engineering and high-end graphics. You admit to liking your iPhone - try a Mac!!! It's only iPhone apps that need to be vetted by Apple, as they are all sold through the App Store and need to maintain a base reliability standard because they're a consumer-grade "phone", and are sold to intelligent and dumb people alike. I get their take on this and think that it's a good idea. My company develops (along with many other things for the publishing business) iPhone apps. Mac OSX applications come from all over the place like any other Windows software.
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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Try any astro software on a MAC  . |
Like this? My 27" iMac QuadCore running OSX, Vista, MaximDL5, Registar and PHD Guiding all at once and without raising a sweat... and that's just within the running Windows environment.
At the same time, but on a different set of pages (which I've yet to see Windows do) I'm also running Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe InDesign CS4, Safari browser, Mail, Pages (a word processor), iDVD, iTunes, and a QuickTime movie on the Mac side - all at the same time and all at a pretty reasonable clip. Have a look at the process list. My QuadCore PC with same basic characteristics wouldn't have a hope.
I'd say that's pretty flexible.....