MacBook Pro owners in for a nasty shock?

[AmigaHeretic]

Really wish Apple would just sell the OS to use on any hardware at some point like XP or Vista.

Can't believe after all these years since 1984 they are still locked in to hardware.  Almost seems sureal.

( I know AOS4.x is locked in, but hard to compare a 1000+ hobby users to, well, looking online at Apple in Q2 2008 had almost 11% World Wide "laptop" market share. source)

[AmigaHeretic]

motorollin wrote:

It seems to me that it makes more sense for a hobby OS with a small user base to be available for generic hardware than an OS which is available for use in pretty much any quantity for hardware which is readily available.

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moto

Would be nice from a get more people to "try' it perspective for sure, but since I don't believe there is even one single developer being paid full time, that's would like asking for a pink Unicorn for Christmas.  

Amazing a few people in their spare time can write ALL the drivers for all the hardware it supports so far in my view anyway.  (Though not going to get in the  x86 - PPC debate as they only have a license for PPC even if they hate PPC at this point and sleep with x86 boards their hands are tied as they have said over and over)

I think Apple is a much better position to support more hardware than the dudes doing AOS4.x part time.

But honestly I really don't know much about writing an OS...so...

[AmigaHeretic]

motorollin wrote:
And lose the stability of OS X in favour of compatibility with more machines... no thanks.

Well, to put the entire article in one senctence and not really quote it,
"Uh yeah, cause these Mac Book Pros are working SOOO great..."

 :lol: