http://consumerist.com/2012/12/18/apple-the-midwestern-united-states-is-too-humid-for-the-imac/ 62 pages of complaint and recognition https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2300580?start=0&tstart=0 That is just sad.
Is it Linux based & can ya run it on an AMD PC? Apple releases OS X Mavericks for free October 22, 2013 ~ Apple is giving away its latest operating system for Macs, a first for the OS.
While I love Apple consumer products like the Ipods and Ipads, their PCs are a complete and utter joke. Apple has clearly switched their focus to where they make the most money and that is in their entertainment products. I don't blame them as that is what I would do but Apple computers used to be good even though they were ridiculously overpriced. I can build a computer that has better parts at less than half the cost of a Mac and even if I have someone else build it or get it prebuilt I still can save several hundred or even thousands if you go for the really high end parts. We have a bunch of brand new Macs at school alongside some really (*)(*)(*)(*)ty Windows 7 "school" PCs that are less powerful than my old smartphone apparently and yet the Macs are down or "out of order" just as often as the (*)(*)(*)(*)ty PCs.
Apple is only faintly "Linux Based", and to get it to behave like a real Linux box requires a lot of work and tweaking. Even Microsoft made a better version of Linux then Apple did in my opinion. And no, it can not run on AMD without a lot of hard work. Known as a "Hackintosh", there are people that mod the OS to run on more contemporary Intel and AMD processors, but the requirements are very specific, and it is not something easily done. Oh, and this "Free OS" is not as big of a deal as you might think. The changes are really so minor, that if it was a Microsoft OS it would be called a "Service Pack", which has always been free. Apple learned long ago that they seem to be able to get away with actually charging people for periodic updates. Windows XP and OSX came out in the same year, 2001. And if I was to have purchased every upgrade of the Microsoft OS, I would have had to pay for a total of 3 upgrades. Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8. To do the same with OSX, it would have been 8 paid upgrades. From Cheetah to Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion. Each of those "upgrades" had a fee attached, even though many were buggy and really no more then a typical "Service Pack" in a Windows environment. But people did it, because they gave discounts of you kept your OS current. Not have one "upgrade", and your next upgrade cost you even more. I have actually been watching the Apple PC flounder for over a decade now, and it really is a minor part of their business. Phones and tablets are where the money is for Apple now, I think they only keep their computer business going out of stubbornness. Their PC is horribly outdated as well as overpriced, and any time you upgrade you have a very real risk of loosing the ability to run key software. For example, at work we have not patched the OS in over a year, because we know doing so kills a lot of programs we bought and have to use for business - and Mavericks would cost the company hundreds of thousands to implement (because of the need to upgrade a lot of other software - some of which does not even exist yet). But the mindset of the company is that everybody must follow where they lead, if they want to or not. And even though the big heads at my company are trying hard to be "100% Mac" for office machines (our production units are all Chrome or Ubuntu with Android coming soon), it is getting hard for us tech people to support our stuff from OSX. And because of past corporate decisions, I doubt that Apple will ever recover. That company has successfully burned every bridge behind them (including IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, and Intel, as well as Dynamic, Colby, Radius, UMAX, and a great many other companies).
