![]() Apple shipped 1,610,000 Macintosh computers and 8,729,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 30 percent growth in Macs and 35 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.I hope the next Apple related article here in OSNews is about the recent news of record Mac sales… > pretty dumb, tons of people complain about them. > can call them that) put out by Gartner? They are always > WHY does OSNews INSIST upon posting ‘articles’ (if you And it relates no differently than XP or Linux, though the drivers are different. Just accept the fact, for better or worse, you are looking at an OS which relates in the same way to all drivers, it just doesn’t have many to relate to. And that does not prove anything about integration or better writing or….anything else. To which it is not an answer to point out that we cannot take a MacOS driver and run it on Free BSD. So the issue with not supporting more cards is not the OS being specially written for some and not other drivers, its just the lack of drivers. I was just pointing out that the OS cannot be specially written to work only with the drivers for certain models of nVidia cards, for instance, and that it will related to all graphics card drivers in the same way, and that it would be very hard and utterly pointless to write the OS in such a way this is not true. Then this morphed into the argument that Apple drivers are better written in some way, and another variant is that in some way the MacOS is specially written to work with some hardware. We started out with the assertion that Apple’s hardware and software is somehow more integrated than others, whatever more integrated means. No, of course not, that is not the argument. ![]()
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