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I think Lenovo might be about to get their butts kicked!

 

Mind you, it should be noted that Microsoft let you install Windows on pretty much anything you like so long as you have a license.

 

Apple are not so gracious... yes I'm talking to you ^^^ ;)

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I think Lenovo might be about to get their butts kicked!

 

Mind you, it should be noted that Microsoft let you install Windows on pretty much anything you like so long as you have a license.

 

Apple are not so gracious... yes I'm talking to you ^^^ ;)

 

I have a P4 desktop upstairs lol

 

Does a virtual machine count on my mac lol

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They should take a lesson from Apple. I have no problem purchasing new OS's for my Mac's whenever they are out (I even BUY a copy for each one of them). I somehow always manage to acquire my copy of Windows.

 

If Microsoft would be more reasonable, I'm sure it would stop much of the cracking and piracy that occurs.

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mac_shinobi

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You misunderstand me - you're not allowed to put Mac-OS-BSD-Whatever-It's-Called-Thing on anything other than a Mac!

 

If you are reffering to my other post then fair enough but if your reffering to this thread then that was a link to windows 7 so not sure how that relates ?:confused:

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They should take a lesson from Apple. I have no problem purchasing new OS's for my Mac's whenever they are out (I even BUY a copy for each one of them). I somehow always manage to acquire my copy of Windows.

 

If Microsoft would be more reasonable, I'm sure it would stop much of the cracking and piracy that occurs.

 

same here - although for the time being only have one but hopefully at some point soon will be getting another one

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same here - although for the time being only have one but hopefully at some point soon will be getting another one

 

It must just be the Apple way of thinking. I bought a MBP and an iMac just before Leopard was released and both machines qualified for the free upgrade, although I had to pay £6.50 postage. I could have got a way with applying for just one upgrade as there is no serial number or anything but I still got both sets of Leopard disks, paying two lots of postage effectively.

 

Would never dream of doing this with anything from Microsoft, and I'm supposed to be "selling" Microsoft services etc!

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It must just be the Apple way of thinking. I bought a MBP and an iMac just before Leopard was released and both machines qualified for the free upgrade, although I had to pay £6.50 postage. I could have got a way with applying for just one upgrade as there is no serial number or anything but I still got both sets of Leopard disks, paying two lots of postage effectively.

 

Would never dream of doing this with anything from Microsoft, and I'm supposed to be "selling" Microsoft services etc!

 

Nothing against windows 7 as heard a lot of good things about it and because I am in the windows 7 section so don't want to get flamed but personally I prefer apples OS for quality and the amount of features you get.

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I do like Windows 7 but have to agree with you. Apple OS releases always feel so much more complete and thought about.
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Its not really a crack, its a oem offline activation image.

Its not even a big deal because all MS do is revoke the key since lenevo breached contract they have to reset their images for Oct 22 launch (which is when you can actually get it on a lenevo)

WGA will pick it up and boom done, vistas cracks were after vista came out (the oem key sort) so since the keys were in the wild as such it was going to be much harder to pick up.

 

As for apple, 7 rules!

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I do like Windows 7 but have to agree with you. Apple OS releases always feel so much more complete and thought about.

 

more bang for the buck as well as feature rich - like they added features on leopard and then just built on that and added support for multi core support and more support for video file types etc supposdly and using the graphics cards power on grand central dispatch ( or however they do it and yes I do know nvidia did an open computing language to do the same thing quite some time ago )

 

Where as MS keep changing things from OS to OS so not sure if windows 7 has the same things in the same places as XP as not played with it that much and it just confuses the issue instead of just building on something good - so if they make another OS after windows 7 will it be windows 7 with better additions or will it just be a whole new OS ?

 

LMFAO @ GATT's new profile pic - jaffa cakes - talk about obvious

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As for apple, 7 rules!

 

Again not starting a flame war ok but can you list the good things about windows 7 - just I have not had much of a play and a brief list of good things and bad things would be nice.

 

Any journaled filing system yet ?

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windows is supposed to be cracked and distributed. it always has been. MS ensure that it has a token copy protection because they need the warez kiddies to be using it. If the kids don't use it because they don't have the pocket money for it then they'll learn alternatives. MS don't want the warez kiddies to grow up using linux!
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I've seen all of them and they just make me laugh - says Simon @ cpltd who mentioned about getting a mac mini to practise and see what OS X is like so he can make more sales ? lol

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They should take a lesson from Apple. I have no problem purchasing new OS's for my Mac's whenever they are out (I even BUY a copy for each one of them). I somehow always manage to acquire my copy of Windows.

 

If Microsoft would be more reasonable, I'm sure it would stop much of the cracking and piracy that occurs.

 

So let me just get this right. Your complaint about Microsoft is that you find it easier to steal software from them rather than legally purchase it?

 

May I recommend to you not using it at all if you dislike it so much, rather than being a thief?

 

As for Apple, I'm quite certain if they didn't lock it down to only their own overpriced hardware there would be just as many illicit copies of their various Linux versions on computers.

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As for Apple, I'm quite certain if they didn't lock it down to only their own overpriced hardware there would be just as many illicit copies of their various Linux versions on computers.

 

Could be wrong so correct me If I am wrong but I think the point of view that apple are coming from is that even if you do use an illegal copy of OS X whether its project 86 or a copied OS X disc you will like it that much that whether or not you get all the features of OS X that you will end up at some point buying there hardware

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Could be wrong so correct me If I am wrong but I think the point of view that apple are coming from is that even if you do use an illegal copy of OS X whether its project 86 or a copied OS X disc you will like it that much that whether or not you get all the features of OS X that you will end up at some point buying there hardware

 

I've used OSX on Apple hardware before, it didn't persuade me to buy an Apple, nor do I feel any real desire to use it again.

 

I'll stick with Windows and Linux on hardware of my choosing thanks. :D

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