Comments on: More OSes? Are You Crazy? http://www.dailyindia.com/blog/221129271.php An Indian technology blog with reviews, opinions and more. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Swanberg http://www.dailyindia.com/blog/221129271.php/comment-page-1#comment-48900 Michael Swanberg Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:40:21 +0000 http://www.dailyindia.com/blog/221129271.php#comment-48900 I'm not sure I get your point. Are you saying that OSX is run on a lot of non-Apple hardware and is rock stable? If so, then I beg to differ... but on the first point, not the second. Apple seems quite litigious of anyone or any group that tries to offer a way to get OSX on non-Apple hardware. Do a search for Psystar for a recent example. The point is that OSX gains a lot of its stability from being able to be rigorously tested, which is only possible on a finite (and small) number of hardware permutations... i.e. Macs. Conversely, Windows' instability comes from the nearly infinite number of hardware combinations (and thus driver combinations) that exist. I would submit that it's a miracle Windows works at all. Thanks for the comment... if you could clarify your point further, I'd love to discuss it. -Mike I’m not sure I get your point. Are you saying that OSX is run on a lot of non-Apple hardware and is rock stable? If so, then I beg to differ… but on the first point, not the second.

Apple seems quite litigious of anyone or any group that tries to offer a way to get OSX on non-Apple hardware. Do a search for Psystar for a recent example.

The point is that OSX gains a lot of its stability from being able to be rigorously tested, which is only possible on a finite (and small) number of hardware permutations… i.e. Macs.

Conversely, Windows’ instability comes from the nearly infinite number of hardware combinations (and thus driver combinations) that exist. I would submit that it’s a miracle Windows works at all.

Thanks for the comment… if you could clarify your point further, I’d love to discuss it.

-Mike

]]> By: McDave http://www.dailyindia.com/blog/221129271.php/comment-page-1#comment-48895 McDave Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:20:54 +0000 http://www.dailyindia.com/blog/221129271.php#comment-48895 "What he doesn’t seem to realize is that once the driver inconsistencies of the vast array of PC permutations grabs hold of OSX, it will be just as unstable, if not more so, than any version of Windows to date." Yet in 8 years this hasn't actually happened. McD “What he doesn’t seem to realize is that once the driver inconsistencies of the vast array of PC permutations grabs hold of OSX, it will be just as unstable, if not more so, than any version of Windows to date.”

Yet in 8 years this hasn’t actually happened.

McD

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