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slinxy said:
The apple licensing is on both the hardware AND software together, when a person buys the hardware they are entitled to use the software and it subsidies the cost of the software, hence why its a hell lot cheaper.

Many companies have tired to get OS X on there generic hardware and failed, making up all sorts of excuses, but they just get law suited.
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Think of it this way (playing devil's advocate here). There is a giant community elsewhere on the net that dedicates a lot of time into making OS X accessible to those who would not otherwise use it/buy it. Including numerous anti-piracy checks in their installer to make sure only genuine buyers are able to get it working. That money goes to directly to Apple, which would normally not have made them any profit as some of their current line-up of Macs are just too lacking at the moment (just look at the whole debacle with the Mac Pro and it's exclusion from the EU). I'm sure if Apple actually updated them more than every 3 years then power users may be more tempted to buy genuine hardware but as it stands it's terrible value for money.
 
Skyboat said:
Think of it this way (playing devil's advocate here). There is a giant community elsewhere on the net that dedicates a lot of time into making OS X accessible to those who would not otherwise use it/buy it. Including numerous anti-piracy checks in their installer to make sure only genuine buyers are able to get it working. That money goes to directly to Apple, which would normally not have made them any profit as some of their current line-up of Macs are just too lacking at the moment (just look at the whole debacle with the Mac Pro and it's exclusion from the EU). I'm sure if Apple actually updated them more than every 3 years then power users may be more tempted to buy genuine hardware but as it stands it's terrible value for money.
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It's not me that makes to rules.. but I totally understand apple's POV on this. Their software is so much cheaper than other companies, as they use the cost of the hardware to subsidies the development of the software. Given the choice I would be more than happy paying the cost of say windows 7 ultimate edition for the license of ML if I could legally use it on any hardware.

I've been using macs pre intel and I have never been bothered about the specs of the machines, simply cos its apple that controls the spec of the machines, thou yes its not the best value for money but ever since they moved to intel, it seems to be the newer users that are worried about specs vs pc, while older mac users don't tend to care.
 
slinxy said:
I've been using macs pre intel and I have never been bothered about the specs of the machines, simply cos its apple that controls the spec of the machines, thou yes its not the best value for money but ever since they moved to intel, it seems to be the newer users that are worried about specs vs pc, while older mac users don't tend to care.
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I guess it depends on the user. If, for instance, you are in a profession such as video production where time may be valuable, and you require large amounts of heavy processing power then I suppose raw specs are paramount. I'd always assumed this is the market the Mac Pro was aimed at, yet it's been neglected in recent years in favour of their prosumer range of MacBooks and iOS devices.

For most other users (non-Mac Pro owners) though, as you say, they aren't that bothered.
 
Skyboat said:
I guess it depends on the user. If, for instance, you are in a profession such as video production where time may be valuable, and you require large amounts of heavy processing power then I suppose raw specs are paramount. I'd always assumed this is the market the Mac Pro was aimed at, yet it's been neglected in recent years in favour of their prosumer range of MacBooks and iOS devices.

For most other users (non-Mac Pro owners) though, as you say, they aren't that bothered.
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we do a lot of 3D rendering at work in lightwave, video editing in adobe premier/final cut and sound in logic/NI Kompelet.. There are server end solutions to the lack of processing power of mac pro, which I will quite happy say is lacking in power compared to some other companies workstations.

Rarely is a render, video, music ever processed only by one person alone so its more suited in a network environment, also for the home user/small project worker.. well from experience its normally down to the manner they trying to process the data, and I'm saying that from a POV of a person that don't know have to use those software; I just have to technically support it.

My mate coaches kids on a weekend on how to use final cut at a school, her day job is editing soaps (poor girl), and she honestly say its manner you use the software rather than power of the machine that gives you a better faster result.

Lets be honest.. software with pro in the title kills machines when not used correctly and in an unprofessional manner.
 
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slinxy said:
It's not me that makes to rules.. but I totally understand apple's POV on this. Their software is so much cheaper than other companies, as they use the cost of the hardware to subsidies the development of the software. Given the choice I would be more than happy paying the cost of say windows 7 ultimate edition for the license of ML if I could legally use it on any hardware.

I've been using macs pre intel and I have never been bothered about the specs of the machines, simply cos its apple that controls the spec of the machines, thou yes its not the best value for money but ever since they moved to intel, it seems to be the newer users that are worried about specs vs pc, while older mac users don't tend to care.
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Chill out, he has a Macbook Pro.

You can't even buy Mac Pros anymore and to get a powerful Mac you'd have to buy an iMac, he might not need the monitor which is a lot of the cost of an iMac and Mac Mini don't have any discrete GPUs so whats the harm in reusing an old PC as a Hackintosh, their EULA isn't legally enforceable, all they could do is refuse to support his Hackintosh which I'm guessing he probably wouldn't care about.
 
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Not exactly the best wallpaper I've had on there, but I took it on my iPhone 5 when I went to the Shard the other day :p
 
Housey said:
Good god man no! This is British at its flawed finest from an era when Britania really did rule the waves!
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:( but but i said scratch that :( i saw the flags after lol, the front turrents look like the ones on the Indy

ok then my other guess is the HMS Hood :D
 
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