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**Lemur** · 10-29-2009, 18:50

Let's be honest here; nobody has a perfect way to fund OS development. Microsoft has subsidized the OS through Office sales for decades. Apple pays for it with hardware. Linux is the only alternative model, and there are all sorts of challenges because of it. (Geeks tend to gravitate toward things that are sexy to geeks, so a lot of UI work in Linux goes undone, underdone or overdone.)

I don't resent Miscrosoft for subsidizing Windows, and I don't resent Apple for subsidizing OS X. However, Apple's method may, in fact, be product tying.

But then I'm one of those heretics who thinks that Apple should have gotten out of the hardware business a decade ago.

**Beskar** · 10-29-2009, 19:14

Originally Posted by Lemur

But then I'm one of those heretics who thinks that Apple should have gotten out of the hardware business a decade ago.

I disagree, I think they should split the business.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-29-2009, 20:09

Originally Posted by Lemur

Let's be honest here; nobody has a perfect way to fund OS development. Microsoft has subsidized the OS through Office sales for decades.

Not really though. The two products are often bundled, but this is somewhat misleading in the sense that it is typically an OEM that sells you the bundle. But Microsoft certainly tries to make its OS be a money machine of its own.

**Fragony** · 10-31-2009, 15:57

http://www.apple.com/nl/macbook/design.html

Want. Need. Will.

**Lemur** · 10-31-2009, 16:14

Isn't this the exact same Macbook they canceled six months ago for the low-end Macbook Pro? As in, the exact model I'm typing on as I sip my coffee right now?

Confusion on the low end. Yes, a relatively cheap unibody Macbook is a good thing. That's why both Froggie and I got one. Makes me wonder why they did away with it, even temporarily.

Apple makes great laptops. They should do that, and let the rest of us build our own desktops. Sheesh, they haven't had a desktop that has tempted me in ... a very long time. I think the last Mac desktop I owned was made by Power Computing. Loved me some clones.