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JitakuKeibiinB
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12 Sep 2012, 2:40 pm

TrainofLove wrote:
Mac-OS is a terrible operating system on terrible hardware, Apple even proved it when the decided to bail on their own PowerPC technology and go with the windows option of Intel which is the Industry standard IMO, AMD is the alternative, and although I had various AMD's for years, I'm much prefering my current Quadcore Intel.

PPC is hardly "their own", Intel has nothing to do with Windows, that's not an opinion, and AMD isn't an alternative at all, it's just x86 from another manufacturer.

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If you want a decent UNIX based operating system, try one of the many distro's of Linux. Ubuntu is the most "famous" of the lot, and looks similar to Mac-OS, but anything and everything in it is free, and you can do anything you want (not that I don't do that with my Windows installation). If you want a Linux distro that looks more like Windows, try Linux Mint.

Canonical has been pushing stuff that is neither kind of "free", and you can use (basically) all of that free stuff in OS X as well. You can "do anything you want" in OS X (unless they get rid of the knob for allowing unsigned software in 10.9 :roll:).

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But honestly, keep away from Apple Desktop's and Laptops, i've used and owned them, and they are crap, and use proprietary hardware, which means, if something breaks, you have to get expensive apple hardware, and you have little upgrade or customization options.

What "proprietary hardware"? They've been using the same generic hardware as every other PC since the switch to Intel, and they've just started losing serviceability with the recent "unibody" devices.



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12 Sep 2012, 3:31 pm

JitakuKeibiinB wrote:
PPC is hardly "their own", Intel has nothing to do with Windows, that's not an opinion, and AMD isn't an alternative at all, it's just x86 from another manufacturer.


I know AMD is another x86 (Or x64).
JitakuKeibiinB wrote:
What "proprietary hardware"? They've been using the same generic hardware as every other PC since the switch to Intel, and they've just started losing serviceability with the recent "unibody" devices.


:roll:

I can tell you now that none of my pc is generic hardware. Yes, if your stupid enough to buy shop pc's like Dell's, they'll be generic.



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12 Sep 2012, 5:15 pm

TrainofLove wrote:
I can tell you now that none of my pc is generic hardware.
Really? You personally construct all of the individual components, large and small, required to make a PC? Or do you use components such as drives from Seagate etc, video cards from NVidia or ATI etc, just like Apple (and Dell) do?

Oh and BTW, Linux isn't UNIX based. It's Linux based.


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