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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: jj on October 14, 2009, 12:53:26 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8304229.stm
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I wonder if there are PPC Mac elitists sneering at those who bought the heathen Intel Mac's.
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I wonder if there are PPC Mac elitists sneering at those who bought the heathen Intel Mac's.
Without a doubt. Those crazy people buying cheaper more powerful hardware. :roflmao:
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What does this have to do with PPC vs X86? It's a software issue.
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What does this have to do with PPC vs X86? It's a software issue.
Snow Leopard doesn't run on PowerPC hardware.
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Snow Leopard doesn't run on PowerPC hardware.
I know it doesn't, but that's beside the point. No where in this article is it indicative that just because Snow Leopard runs on x86 only, did this flaw/bug occur. If Snow Leopard were created for PPC only for instance, and the same issue happened, would that justify making a statment that x86 is the way to go. No.
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No, it's not beside the point. This bug only happens in Snow Leopard, which only runs on x86. MorphOS only runs PPC. So you can thank god for MorphOS but if you own a Mac that is vurnable to this bug, MorphOS won't save you at all.
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So you can thank god for MorphOS but if you own a Mac that is vurnable to this bug, MorphOS won't save you at all.
It will if you never boot into OS X and try running as a guest and returning back to your old account...
i.e. Stick to MorphOS.
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@tonyyeb
Err, no. Because this bug only happens on Snow Leopard, which in turn only runs on x86, MorphOS won't save you. Why? Because MorphOS doesn't run on x86. So you can't run Snow Leopard and MorphOS on the same machine.
But if you really want to praise MOS some more, I'll give you an argument that sticks. This SL bug has to do with user management, which MOS doesn't have. So this could never happen to MOS.
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Oops! Silly me, misread your earlier post. Yes you are correct... I should have said Mac users should have stuck to PPC. Then they could enjoy MorphOS and OS X and not be faced with this very silly but devastating bug.
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Yeah, this is a very silly bug and seriously bad when it happens to you! But it seems to only happen under very specific circumstances (IIRC upgrade 10.5.x to SL and then do the login order you descibed).
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I know it doesn't, but that's beside the point. No where in this article is it indicative that just because Snow Leopard runs on x86 only, did this flaw/bug occur. If Snow Leopard were created for PPC only for instance, and the same issue happened, would that justify making a statment that x86 is the way to go. No.
It was only supposed to be a light hearted comment about fanboyism. I thought the words 'elitists' and 'sneering' might have given it away.
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It was only supposed to be a light hearted comment about fanboyism. I thought the words 'elitists' and 'sneering' might have given it away.
Yep, I understand after re-reading the thread from the beginning. My apologies for jumping the gun so rashly. :-)
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:)
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Upgrade installs are retarded to begin with. This bug just drives that point home.
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Upgrade installs are retarded to begin with. This bug just drives that point home.
Eh, depends on your point of view. For me it's a challenge to be met. Both my main Amiga and my windows box have never had a clean install since their first setup. I installed an HD on my first Amiga with WB1.2. I installed Windows 3.11 on a x286. How many years ago I couldn't say now. But in each case the OS's were upgraded. Once the HD's were old/slow/filled, I cloned them to bigger drives and then later came new OS upgrades and at times new motherboars with hardware. Windows went from 3.11>Win95>Win95b>Win98>Win98SE>XP>XPsp2, each as an upgrade.
My Amiga now sits with 3.9 and the Windows box at XPsp2 on a dual-core/core2. With windows through the years I've had to do registry maintenace, reinstall a few apps and drivers that wouldn't co-operate, but all eventually was solved. I once used a nice registry clean up util on windows that found remanents of a game I had installed almost 10 years earlier. Ah good times. :)
Let me also add that through all of this, I made backups. This little fact would have saved the butts of those who lost data with Snow Leopard. If any thing was truely retarded, it was doing upgrades without backups.
Plaz