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Originally Posted by edgeprod
How much work do I have to do to get it to run Mac OS X? None. I turn my system on, and my Mac OS X desktop loads. By your own admission, you've wasted a ton of time on that same thing. Your time must not be valuable to you -- mine is.
That's all that matters, really.
You don't seem like a bad guy, but you keep trying to defend your simple mistakes with more and more outlandish stores. It makes you seem petty and a bit ridiculous. If you would have just said something like "I don't understand Macs because I've never owned one, but I think this is what you'd run into, and this is why," you would have gotten a lot further than just throwing out random "OMFG YOU ARE WRONG I KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER THAN YOU DO" stuff ... especially since you were wrong about so many times, lol.
But, again, to each his or her own.
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It takes no more work than loading up the install disk and installing. No more time than it took you to upgrade to 10.7 and 10.8. 1 "extra" step that takes less than a minute to do.
10.6 was a different beast altogether. Simply because back then, the kernel had to be modified. In some cases the audio kexts had to be modified. In some cases EFI strings had to be generated in order to get certain GPUs to function properly. Why go through all of this you ask? Well, because people like me can. We choose to. Maybe it's because we like the challenge. Maybe it's because we refuse to pay more money than something is really worth. Maybe it's because we like the freedom to choose for ourselves regardless of the faux limitations. Maybe it's one of 1,000 different reasons.
But again, if not for the people that actually do these things, technology would simply never advance.
Choosing to dig in and learn about hardware, software, code and the like is simply a choice. It's my hobby. Not to mention, I like to make informed decisions. I don't simply spend more money than something is worth because it has a pretty logo and tech support that I'll never need.
Some people play video games, some people go fishing, some people do this, some people do that. How I choose to spend my free time is no indication of how much or little I value my time.