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by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/17/2013, 10:04pm PDT |
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All you've ever used, apparently, are laptops, and then you proceed, without ever having used one, to complain that a desktop is worthless.
Further, the older Macs use PowerPC processors, clearly you can't develop for Intel processors on a PowerPC.
Therefore, you're complaining that a machine that is not an Intel processor machine is worthless because it can't run or develop code for an Intel machine.
That's like saying a $75,000 IBM z/System B81 Mainframe that handles upwards of 100,000 transactions a second is worthless because you can't run Halo 3 on it. They have different uses and if the machine you have can handle what you need to do on it then it's a perfectly good machine, no matter how new or old it is.
Speaking of Mainframes, IBM has put a lot of effort into upward compatibility. That means that if you're a customer and you have a mission-critical piece of software that was originally written for MVS back in the 1970s and then continued on OS/VS1 in the 1980s, you can continue to run that application on z/OS now. Some bank or insurance company is not going to just throw out its inhouse-built set of applications that run the company and which they've probably spent upwards of $20 million in care and feeding (not counting hardware costs) to start over on blade servers, that aren't as capable and would cost more money to operate.
Of course you can't develop for the latest Intel Mac on a PowerPC. That's not its purpose. Never was, and if it wasn't for the fact that most (consumer) development is for Intel/Amd x86-64 processors we might still be using them. In fact, IBM still manufactures the PowerPC chip, it still has a following for some environments.
The older Macs are good for two important niche points where they can be extremely useful.
(1) For someone who wants a computer for light to medium workloads of more-or-less stable environment, where they might not have a whole lot of technological support and wants a machine that is essentially invulnerable to virus attack.
(2) Someone who wants an inexpensive way to learn the OS X operating system. Again, say what you want, you are not going to get anything cheaper than $120.
I mean, if you criticize a jaws of life or a hand drill and call them worthless because you can't use them as a hammer, you just show you're too incompetent to operate a blanket.
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Hackintosh by Rafiki 09/16/2013, 7:39pm PDT 
Re: Hackintosh by motherfuckerfoodeater 09/16/2013, 8:31pm PDT
probably don't do this by jeep 09/16/2013, 8:43pm PDT
I'll repeat what I told TDARCOS about the piece of shit he bought by Entropy Stew 09/16/2013, 11:11pm PDT
Quit telling jokes by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/17/2013, 11:24am PDT
You worthless fucking retard, this is a thread about iOS development by Entropy Stew 09/17/2013, 1:42pm PDT
You have just proven your stupidity and incompetence by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/17/2013, 10:04pm PDT
You worthless fucking retard, this is a thread about iOS development NT by Entropy Stew 09/17/2013, 10:20pm PDT
Holy fucking shit you are so stupid by The Happiness Engine 09/18/2013, 6:02pm PDT
Just cut the crap and shut up, Happless Injun, you're the stupid one by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/26/2013, 9:40am PDT
I'll ratchet up the autism more by posting something from Wikipedia by Entropy Stew 09/26/2013, 10:33am PDT
Re: Just cut the crap and shut up, Happless Injun, you're the stupid one by The Happiness Engine 09/26/2013, 4:19pm PDT
No, when you referenced my computer as a POS you added it to the conversation NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/22/2013, 12:41am PST
DECISION: Paul, how much do you get paid to run VLC? Stew, how much to code? NT by Chairman Kaga 09/18/2013, 5:46pm PDT
Absolutely worthless by False Premise 12/22/2013, 9:11am PST
Re: Absolutely worthless by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 01/26/2014, 3:37am PST
so I said 3 years old by jeep 09/17/2013, 9:55pm PDT
Can you get the iOS sim to work outside of OSX, or were you just testing on phon by es directly? Entropy Stew 09/17/2013, 10:28pm PDT
they had some windows thing so they were looking at monotouch by jeep 09/18/2013, 7:49pm PDT
And stop saying stupid things by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/17/2013, 10:18pm PDT
Re: And stop saying stupid things by The Warezwolf 09/17/2013, 10:21pm PDT
You worthless fucking retard, this is a thread about iOS development NT by Entropy Stew 09/17/2013, 10:21pm PDT
Yes, and you denegrated my computer, which made it relevant to this conversation NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/22/2013, 12:46am PST
What the fuck are you even talking about now? You're fucking insane man! by Eurotrash 09/17/2013, 11:10pm PDT
Take this advice to heart, please. NT by The Happiness Engine 09/18/2013, 6:04pm PDT
Broke down and bought a 2011 MacBook Air by Rafiki 12/21/2013, 12:11pm PST
Re: Broke down and bought a 2011 MacBook Air by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/21/2013, 5:28pm PST
Please elaborate by Rafiki 12/21/2013, 6:00pm PST
It's a great value unless you have time/ability to piece together something chea by Vested Id 12/21/2013, 6:16pm PST
Even if you just install Windows on the Macbook it will be way better by FoK 12/21/2013, 6:19pm PST
Oh yeah, those laptops are shit by Rafiki 12/21/2013, 7:25pm PST
Re: Please elaborate by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/21/2013, 9:20pm PST
Re: Broke down and bought a 2011 MacBook Air by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 01/26/2014, 3:06am PST
Re: Broke down and bought a 2011 MacBook Air by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 01/26/2014, 7:11am PST
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