Yes. My point, however, was not about that. That was a strawman you brought out, along with the, "that other commercial OS that reliably runs software for many businesses is a toy," bit. My point was that if you are not tethered to Apple, there's little reason to bother even doing a Hackintosh, compared to an OEM workstation.Since it still doesn't seem to be sinking in why your original point was completely moot...
Do you know what the difference is between a Hackintosh and a Macintosh?
If you want to get technical about it a circle has an infinite number of sides. One would assume that it is the flat section with the ports on it, naturally.
Once more since it STILL (amazing) hasn't sank in.... its a PC.....
Once more since it STILL (amazing) hasn't sank in.... its a PC.
If that's still too subtle: it runs Windows. Natively. As in it's primary purpose for most that own the exact same hardware.
No, there was no such misunderstanding, there. Zaap was clearly talking about putting OS X on a subset of COTS x86 hardware (Macs are PCs, but are less like COTS than big vendor PCs, and much less than white boxes). Hackintoshes aren't new, strange, or misunderstood.Cerb is misunderstanding that and thinking that Zaap is talking about Apple hardware and saying that if a person were using Apple hardware, then if their software isn't tied to OS X, they should just get a PC, rather than installing Windows on their Mac.
No, there was no such misunderstanding, there. Zaap was clearly talking about putting OS X on a subset of COTS x86 hardware (Macs are PCs, but are less like COTS than big vendor PCs, and much less than white boxes). Hackintoshes aren't new, strange, or misunderstood.
Rather, that just up and using the same OS most businesses rely on for their client systems can be easier in the end, if there isn't an anchor tying one to OS X for business needs (such as Final Cut Pro being necessary, and only running in OS X, which was mentioned some posts later, after going all OS X-fanboy), or to Apple hardware (the latter being mostly gone, these days). And that in that case, workstations running Windows <version> Professional from the factory, such an HP Z-series, also offer the internal expansion and configuration options this new Mac is removing (TBF, I think it's an interesting gamble, which is why I was even reading over here in the Apple forum, and hope it leads to further non-mobile shaking up, because not one other hardware vendor has the balls to try anything remotely different, as their BODs' minds are all squarely on cost-cutting above all else).
As far as I see it, the main misunderstanding is the idea that Windows is a toy, yet OS X somehow not, which is simply silly. Neither are, and not accepting that both are highly useful, and highly reliable, yet limited by their masters' corporate designs, and the culture of developers of platform-specific software, is blind fanboy BS.
I think I may have caught some kind of apple bug-- I am constantly staring at Apple's Mac Pro animated page, and damn that looks like a beautifully design computer that solves a big problem I have -- heat transfer and fan noise.
I guess we'll have to wait and see, but I have fallen behind on my hardware research. Relative to just building your own computer (and this gen I'll probably stick to saddling it up with Win7, maybe Linux) is this Mac Pro actually powerful?
Not sure how I feel about the AMD gpus (aka lowest bidder)
It'll certainly be plenty powerful, and those AMD GPUs will very likely be great too. My suspicion is that there may be problems with external expansion:
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I apologize, I should have been clear that I intended the picture to be light-hearted.
Light-heart this! This is internet, as in websites!
I think that Apple had a similar image a while back comparing the iMac to a Dell something. The Dell was covered in the extra wires from the mouse, keyboard, wireless adapter, and webcam, whereas the iMac was all wireless.
Like this?
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I won't miss the big box, but I can see why some would. Its too bad Apple isn't providing first part options for those people, they have to rely on third party solutions for thunderbolt connectivity which sucks.
I doubt it. I suspect they will discontinue the old cheese grater completely, but it's also possible they will still sell the old model for some time. I find it unlikely they'll sell a new cheese grater with all the fixins and the round black Mac Pro at the same time (although they did do that with the Power Mac and Cube back in the day).
it's also possible they will still sell the old model for some time. I find it unlikely they'll sell a new cheese grater with all the fixins and the round black Mac Pro at the same time (although they did do that with the Power Mac and Cube back in the day).
