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If you had the choice, would you switch to a Mac?

Yes
3
19%
No
11
69%
Maybe
1
6%
What's a Mac?
1
6%
 
Total votes: 16

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xWastedMindx wrote:And the ONE major thing that would absolutely make me switch, is if MAC became an open standard. By that meaning a non-proprietary system. I like to play with the hardware, upgrade as I see fit, I dont want to be limited to only MAC standards. But yep..thats my 2-cents 8)
You must not be up-to-date on Macs. Mac OS X is an open-source software, just like Unix and Linux. Macs also use PC-compatible hardware, such as USB, PCI bus, PC RAM, and GeForce graphics chipsets.

Besides, WastedMind, don't you use Windows 2000? That's about as closed-source as you can possibly get.
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Michael wrote:
xWastedMindx wrote:And the ONE major thing that would absolutely make me switch, is if MAC became an open standard. By that meaning a non-proprietary system. I like to play with the hardware, upgrade as I see fit, I dont want to be limited to only MAC standards. But yep..thats my 2-cents 8)
You must not be up-to-date on Macs. Mac OS X is an open-source software, just like Unix and Linux. Macs also use PC-compatible hardware, such as USB, PCI bus, PC RAM, and GeForce graphics chipsets.

Besides, WastedMind, don't you use Windows 2000? That's about as closed-source as you can possibly get.

Last I checked MAC is not open source. I looked on http://www.sourceforge.net and it is not there. I looked on the http://www.apple.com/macosx/ and its not there either. I dont know where you get the idea that MAC OS X is an open source OS. I might not know much about internal hardware for MAC's, but you might be right about the hardware part. The OS is just an OS, it shouldnt matter what hardware...
And as for the other comment, I used to run Windows2000 until I think I either got a virus or got SP3, and it went downhill, so now Im back on my Win98SE. :( But at least it works. But I will soon be getting away from M$ very soon. I got me Mandrake Linux 9. :P
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xWastedMindx wrote:Last I checked MAC is not open source. I looked on http://www.sourceforge.net and it is not there. I looked on the http://www.apple.com/macosx/ and its not there either. I dont know where you get the idea that MAC OS X is an open source OS.
Directly from Apple's Website: The Darwin Project
Apple wrote:Apple's open source projects allow developers to customize and enhance key Apple software. Through the open source model, Apple engineers and the open source community collaborate to create better, faster and more reliable products for our users.
Besides, Mac OS X is built on the same kernel used in FreeBSD, and pretty much everything Unix is open-source.
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I see someone really knows his Mac stuff. :lol:
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