goddog said:
True you do need the EFI, but there are great developer comunities out there that write those, and you can flash most fx cards after they have been on the market a few months to work on any mac. I have done this before. or you can buy preflashed cards if you want, they are plug and play. as for codecs, wma-drm, ogg, flac are the non suported ones.. i would like to see ogg added, as the hardware is capable of it. what more do you want, and non drm wma works, any non drm music from other music stores will work i do wish they would hurry up and strip all drm from their music, but i suspect music industry is using this to try and leverage more control from apple, itunes supports the same, but you can add ogg and flac, i have both on mine
iphone, i would like to say i know more about it, but im now waiting for version 3 before getting one, as many things are not there that i want, and by then the link to at&t should be broken, but i look at its specs and think better could be done, but all smart phones strike me that way, i was still using a sarteck until analog was killed I think it is far more that the dev community for apple is still smaller, and i feel it is just as open as windows, but not as much as linux, but then nothing else is, and linux suffers from the same gpu issuses as osx if thats a point of yours. give it a few more years, and i feel we wont even need to flash cards to make them uniform, i feel the next few os releases will help with this. I used to get advanced copies, but I no longer want to pay for the dev community privlege for that
my current boxes are an 03 g5 tower dual 2 (gpu ati 850 overclocked), a mac mini 05 1.42 ( ati overclocked gpu makes a nice file server), mac book pro 15 06 (worked with overclocking it, but could not dissipate heat well enough). |
There are plenty other codecs itunes/iphone do not support. There's nothing but Apple's will stopping such implementations... (except in the few cases of propietary codecs that require royalties).
Also, the fact that you can hack your way around their walled garden approach it's nothing but a confirmation that they indeed limit choice. Do you need to hack / use pirated bios to install graphic cards on a pc?
You are basically saying that apple's door is not closed and the proof is that you can pick the lock to open it. HINT: if there's a lock to be picked, the door is closed.
As for linux and graphic cards, there's a substantial difference between the OS owner/machine manufacturer putting up doors so you can't do something and open software lacking driver support. Hint, only in one of those situations there's someone actively trying to limit choice.
edit: geez, I can't believe that as a sort-of-apple-fan I'm actually arguing against a rabider fanboy about apple's merits and demerits. Surreal.