RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
April 30, 2013 at 3:08 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2013 at 3:09 pm by Love.)
(April 30, 2013 at 2:49 pm)Tiberius Wrote: A lot of factual inaccuracies there:
The MacBook Pro is highly priced, but I wouldn't call it overpriced. You get what you pay for: a durable, beautiful, powerful machine that works very well with the Mac OS X operating system precisely because the OS is designed for the hardware (rather than other operating systems, which have to work with multiple different combinations of hardware).
I am sorry, but you're incorrect here.
To say that it is "specifically designed for the hardware" is very misleading. The hardware inside a MacBook Pro is virtually no different from a normal laptop with the exception of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, which is utilised by Apple for control protection of Mac OS. If Mac OS detects that the TPM is not present, it will not boot, hence the requirement for "Hackintosh". Apple has stipulated that it is against the law to install Mac OS on anything other than an official Apple machine. This is what I hate about Apple. Mac OS is NOT specifically designed for all of the hardware present inside an Apple machine.
I have used the "Hackintosh" method to install Mac OS X on a virtual machine. It really is just a case of bypassing the hardware requirement for the aforementioned TPM.
Mac OS X is a very good and reliable true UNIX operating system; I have no problem with the actual functionality of Mac OS, just the slimey marketing tactics used by Apple.
