Me and My Mac

I’ve been trying to hackintosh one of my laptops.  I have so far, failed.

Why?

OSX doesn’t seem to support the motherboard. Wait.  Lets just stop a moment. OSX DOESN’T SUPPORT THE MOTHERBOARD.

What?

I could download any linux distro and it would install immediately, guaranteed.  I could install windows 95, memphis, 98se, 2000, 2000 ME, XP, Vista, Media Centre, Windows 7, and they would ALL work.

HOW have apple managed to successfully deliver an operating system that is substandard? I mean, you cant call an operating system an operating system unless it can genuinely compete with its competitors in all factors.

Ignore functionality, you cant even install it on a computer that wasn’t made by Apple.  

Why?  They realise that with huge configuration options, comes the chances of hardware issues.  They realise that if they can control the hardware on which the operating system can be installed, that it will make for a more stable product (in theory).

Now, iv got windows 7 at work, which hasnt crashed or bluescreen’d once since install. Adversely, my mac beachballs regularly.

I’d like to posit the notion: The latest OSX is no more stable than the latest Windows.  This is for no good reason.

Windows manages stability without the ability to predict the hardware on which it is installed. So do ALL the linux distro’s out there.  Why cant OSX?

Steve Jobs loves to winge about ‘closed’ and ‘open’ (and loves to redefine these words to fit his purpose).  His is a truly closed system.  Ok, the hardware is intel now, but its still proprietary because OSX won’t run on anything but hardware that looks and smells like apple.

Ok, apple computers are really good, ill concede that totally (its why i spent my hard earned money on one) but Apple and OSX are frankly unprepared for a marketplace (following the IBM model in the 70s and 80s) which will surely start to demand OSX on non-apple machines.