“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)

Post by djrogers » Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 11:56 PM UTC

webmobdev wrote: post #215

djrogers wrote: post #142

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> And of course, with their own ARM processors they can further dumb down macOS and lock it down Anything to back this up? There was nothing preventing them from ‘locking down’ an intel based macOS, and I haven’t seen any evidence of a money grab with M1 based macOS either…

> There was nothing preventing them from ‘locking down’ an intel based macOS On Intel Macs, you can install Linux and Windows if you are unhappy with macOS. So they couldn't really lock it down. With their own custom ARM processors, they can prevent the installation of other OSes. Thus, like with iPhone or iPad, you will be stuck with the OS they provide. With the M1, so far you can only run other OSes on VM.

Post by robertoandred » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #180

robertoandred wrote: post #153

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To open unsigned software, right click, click Open, and click Open on the dialog that pops up. That’s for High Sierra and newer releases.

It's still annoying. Apple needs to realize, it's my machine, and I'll take whatever risks I want. Stop trying to police me as though I'm incompetent. I know full well at this point if some random executable is going to be sketchy and it's wholly on me if I run it. It's just a push to go to the app store, while convenient, it most certainly is not for developers who don't want to deal with their BS to maintain a pres…

Post by mustacheemperor » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 8:33 PM UTC

anthk wrote: post #209

mustacheemperor wrote: post #156

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And on the other hand 4GB or more of ram would require Vista 64bit, which today remains the most crash-prone and unstable leaky bucket of an operating system I’ve ever been subjected to, at least in the first year of release.

No it doesn't. Both Windows and Linux have PAE.