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> You don't see linux users purchasing Apple hardware to install linux on generally Linus Torvalds does this, and has for a decade (he had several Powerbooks b
by blasdel 16y ago
> You don't see linux users purchasing Apple hardware to install linux on generally
Linus Torvalds does this, and has for a decade (he had several Powerbooks before the Intel transition). A lot of the other kernel developers do too. They have money, want to get shit done, and don't have ideological hangups about these things.
If you spend your $2k for a non-shit laptop on a Thinkpad instead, you're just buying into a different high-margin premium brand, and at this point one that's been on the decline for years.
There isn't really DRM in the chips, you know. It's just in the software, and it's very easy to get around, because Apple doesn't really care. They don't even normally bother with serial numbers, much less product activation.
- etherael 16y agoI know you can hackintosh, but the thing is I actually dislike OS X, I dislike the missing features of linux etc etc, so that means nothing to me. At the moment I use an Asus UL80vt, it took some tooling around to get it perfect, but it is that from my perspective now, and it only cost me 1k AUD. Interesting point about the Linus thing, I was specifically talking about everyone I know that actually uses Linux, they'd look at me like I was crazy if I suggested they buy a mac for the hardware (cause it would necessarily subtract from the grunt margin on the box they could get, instead, and also mac hardware is always significantly behind the performance curve at their cutting edge compared to what's available outside apple's walled garden.)