RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
April 30, 2013 at 3:21 pm
(April 30, 2013 at 3:08 pm)Love Wrote: I am sorry, but you're incorrect here.
Yet you provide no proof. I at least had the courtesy to link to an article written by an Apple expert who wrote an entire book on OS X...
Quote: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...
Right, but I didn't say the hardware was specifically designed for the operating system, in which case you would have a point. I said the reverse...that the operating system was designed for the hardware, which is true, and I can't see how it is misleading. Could they have used other hardware? No doubt, but they didn't...they chose specific hardware (which is common across the same type of Mac) and then made sure the OS works with that hardware. This is different to what Linux and Windows developers do; they try to make their OS compatible with as much hardware as possible, because their aim is to spread the operating system. Apple's aim is to spread their hardware.
Quote:...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".
Again with the lack of supporting links. Look, even the
Wikipedia article on Hackintoshes specifically says the TPM is not used in this way. Seriously, if Mac OS X booting correctly is dependent on a TPM being present...my laptops would not boot! They do not have a TPM at all, and no Apple product has since 2009. This is an irrefutable fact that you are just ignoring.
Quote:Apple has stipulated that it is against the law to install Mac OS on anything other than an official Apple machine.
Yes, and since it is their product they can put this in the EULA. However, it remains legal (at least, a grey area) if you make a Hackintosh for personal use.
Quote:This is what I hate about Apple. Mac OS is NOT specifically designed for all of the hardware present inside an Apple machine.
Being designed for specific hardware does not necessarily mean it won't function on other hardware. I'm not saying that, and neither are Apple. Clearly OS X can function on other hardware, since Hackintoshes exist. However, the fact remains that Apple don't support this hardware, and don't develop for it.
Quote: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.
Not according to the Wikipedia article I linked to...
