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Just a guess, but with Apple, you trade cost-effectiveness for robustness and reliability. By using Macs as the computer and OS X as the UNIX-of-choice, they ar
by autoreleasepool 11y ago
Just a guess, but with Apple, you trade cost-effectiveness for robustness and reliability. By using Macs as the computer and OS X as the UNIX-of-choice, they are able to eliminate entire classes of errors related to drivers, hardware-compatibility, and system configuration. Apple knows its hardware very well and OS X has (mostly) sane defaults, but I agree it is an atypical choice.
- weaksauce 11y agoThey have two systems listed on the site and both are turnkey packages including an iMac by the looks of it. OS X is mostly nice to program for and apple makes nice hardware. I suspect they could have written the software using C# and windows with a custom PC build somewhat easily, but UNIX is a nice and stable base os so I can see why they might have chosen OS X.