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The E.U. would have drunk guards and rabid dogs watching the borders with orders to stop all Microsoft product.
With Apple they just stick out a welcome hand and direct them to the welcome buffet.
Yosemite upgrade stops Macs with aftermarket SSDs from booting
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New #11
I am sure the EU will go after them is someone complains. But they need a trigger. By themselves they do nothing.
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New #12
Remember with crApple you are buying into their walled garden. It is not a PC per se but a CrApple appliance you are buying with support as part of the package. You are paying 3 times the price of a basic PC for this service. Some people like this as they don't have to think. I would never give an apple device house room as I do not like the way they as a company operate. Sweat shop workers and $1200 for a 13" laptop with a dual core i5 with 8gb of ram and hardly any storage so you need their add ons with stupid cables that cost serious money. I love it when someone impress me with one and I tell them like it is. It was like B&O TV's 20 years ago had a Thomson / Ferguson ICC Chassis in them yet they cost 3 times as much with no difference in performance of the picture, yes the sound was far better due to 25 wats RMS audio output stage and serious speakers for a TV.Last edited by Indianatone; 25 Nov 2014 at 11:01.
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New #14
I'm probably a minority here on this Windows forum with these opinions but personally I think my Mac is worth every cent, and so do all others I know that mainly use it to create music and videos. In that area I think it's outstanding. So I guess I swing both ways
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New #17
That not suppose to happen. According to Microsoft OEM have to have a way to disable secure boot for the end user or can't get a windows 8 sticker contract rules. The reason Microsoft doesn't want to be sued by the U.S. DOJ again. Are you sure it just wasn't the drivers not being available? I tried lot of Linux distros. I found out the ubuntu or its derivatives can work with almost any system. I don't like the Amazon search being installed, so I use Lubuntu and installed xfce4 desktop with wine. However, I did have trouble with xubuntu that includes xfce desktop. Didn't work to well on my system. The only thing thats annoying is whoopsie pops up a lot even with no crashes. Whoopsie is the crash report system for ubuntu and can be uninstalled using apt-get.
Sudo apt-get purge whoopsie
Sudo apt-get autoremove
You will need to do after each update, because it re-installs.
Side note Embedded systems are different, but I don't understand the legalize of those.
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New #18
There's no equivalent hardware for the MacBook Pro 13" on the Windows laptop side in the $1,500 range. Show me a windows laptop that has 256 GBs PCIe SSD drive and 8 GBs memory in this price range. It's even hard to find laptops with SSD drives let alone PCIe SSD...
The PCIe SSD native performance is great:
Even Windows 8.1 in VMware is fast:
The best you can do on the Windows laptop side is the Samsung Pro:
And don't kid yourself... If the Apple hardware is coming from "sweatshops", then so do all other OEM laptops. There's no OEM that actually builds laptops in the US. At least not at the size of Apple...
In my view, the MacBook is the best hardware for Windows 8.1, even in VMware. It's fast on the PCIe SSD and the native Windows resolution of 3360x2100 is awesome. The battery last much longer than other laptops, even with two OSs running on it. It runs all of the business applications that I need better than any Windows laptop in this price range. The reason the OSX used in my case is for multi-media and to be able to support some of my customers with MACs...
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New #19
IIRC, OEMs can still sell the computer without the W8 sticker and they can then do whatever they like.
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