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By retrospooty on 4/30/2010 8:24:59 AM , Rating: 2
Owned ? I think not, you are wrong on 4 of 4 counts there.

By Alexstarfire on 4/30/2010 12:53:58 PM , Rating: 2
I think you have the incorrect definition of wrong. If by wrong you mean plausible, then yes, he's wrong. #4 could be wrong, but none of us know for sure. I doubt it runs standard software anyway. He's right about #1 since they do have the hardware and software for it. Is it used? IDK because I don't know every industry inside and out. #2 is blatantly right. To say otherwise is just ignorance. Just because most games are DirectX and not OpenGL doesn't make the computer itself incapable of such features. And #3.... how about you name some files that aren't compatible. .7z and it's variants I don't believe are Mac compatible, though I haven't checked in a good while. Likewise DMG isn't really used outside of Macs but I do believe you can deal with it on PCs. Ummmm, that's all I can really think of.

By retrospooty on 4/30/2010 1:05:05 PM , Rating: 3
You are responding in the wrong thread and missing the context. No-one said it wasn't capable of running any of the above. The context was that it runs "well" or not "well". Since you want to ring it here, I will paste some of it here.

1. Almost zero enterprise apps are written to run on Macs. - Doesnt work "well" on Mac
2. 3d games - the few that are written perform like crap compared to thier PC counterparts. - Doesnt work "well" on Mac
3. Not file compatible other than a few standard media items. - Doesnt work "well" on Mac
4. As far as Foxconn using PC's to build Mac's that is true too. What procurement software do you think they are using to manage the supply chain and order parts? Do you think its the corporate order procurement software written to run on a Mac? What about logistics and reverse logistics? the whole supply chain and just about every aspect of every contract manufacturing company from A to Z runs on a PC. Some use server based apps but are still being ran through a PC. - Doesnt work "well" on Mac

