And that's why my early '09 whitebook (my spare Mac) can run Yosemite.
That's 6 generations old.....
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And that's why my early '09 whitebook (my spare Mac) can run Yosemite.
That's 6 generations old.....
seriously?
Who has better legacy support than apple?
My 2007 MacBook Pro runs yosemite like a champ and iOS 8 supports the 4S which will be a 4 year old device in October....
Who has better legacy support than apple?
My 2007 MacBook Pro runs yosemite like a champ and iOS 8 supports the 4S which will be a 4 year old device in October....
It certainly seems like a possibility as vBulletin isn't the most secure or best forum software out there.
Based on the town listed in the First Solar press release (Cholame, CA) this is not in "foggy Monterey" the city, but rather the extreme southeast of Monterey county, which is pretty much in the Central Valley:
Google maps link
So what is the technology changes to fast? You dont have to have the latest and greatest all the time
130 mW/h equal 130 000 kW/h. (130 000 * 0.08$) * 24 hours, 249 600$ of free energy per day. 91 104 000$ per years. Repay itself in 10 years
If you want them to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.
Huh? An iPhone keeps working whether it is "supported" or not. And many, many iPhones continue being used after the original owner buys something new.
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To quote Tim Cook, if you don't like it, you know where the door is. Nobody forces you to buy Apple shares.
You do realize that's hardly impressive.
I have a 2006 Mac Pro that won't run beyond OS X 10.7.5.
Meanwhile I have an old Windows PC that originally ran Windows ME back in 2000. And that machine will run Windows 10 quite well (as it still exceeds the requirements for Windows 10) despite the fact that Windows 10 isn't even officially released yet.
So obviously, Apple's legacy support is pathetic by comparison.
What really highlights Apple's unnecessary abandonment of legacy support, is the fact that the 2006 Mac Pro is quite capable of actually running Yosemite. It's just that Apple chooses to prevent it from installing. Call it choosing to artificially obsolete machines so that they can sell new ones.
It only takes changing a fee lines of code in Yosemite, and providing drivers for the video card to enable it to run on the old Mac Pro. Yet they choose to obsolete machines instead by abandoning support.
Apple is hardly a model of legacy support. Apple is about pushing new sales. Not supporting machines that could still easily meet the task.
Bravo Apple.
California is getting a 4000 acre solar farm that will power 160,000 homes. This is just the start. Also a First Solar project. As the tech improves over time the benefits will increase.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-solar-farm-20150209-story.html
California is getting a 4000 acre solar farm that will power 160,000 homes. This is just the start. Also a First Solar project. As the tech improves over time the benefits will increase.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-solar-farm-20150209-story.html
Yosemite can run on the 2006 Mac pro because it is a 64 BIT machine. Yes, it came with a 32-BIT EFI. But that only stops yosemite from running on it by Apple's choice. Many have successfully run Yosemite on the 2006 Mac Pro. It is fully within Apple's ability to support this. Yet they choose not to. EFI is really an artificial barrier. It is easily overcome and replaced in software. We're not talking about BIOS chips from the 1980's here.
Apple made a strategic choice to abandon a fully capable machine. One which has been proven to easily be made to run Yosemite. If the end user can work it out, Apple could remove the artificial barriers and permit direct installation.
And a lot of people who have flashed the EFI have likely wrecked their machines in the process. It's a hit and miss sort of thing.
When our grandkids can still go out to play. Apple didn't get to 700B market cap by calculating short term stock prices or cash flow over investment.
Fellow Apple shareholder (since 1997! Thank you Steve!) Cook has my heartfelt support for leading in this direction.
Edited to add that betting on the long hold with Apple over 17 years has paid for my kid's college tuition. I give them the benefit of the doubt on what seem like crazy ideas at the time like touch screen phones let's say. Besides, less than 1B is pocket change cheaper to raise by bond sale than touching cash on hand. It's a far more rational play than Google routinely launches. They'll be energy self sufficient in California. That's cray cray (and I don't mean supercomputers).
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You may be disappointed to find out that this is likely a smart investment, since solar purchased from a large project like this costs about 7¢ per kilowatt-hour, with no inflation, for 25 years. So, it's the right thing, a smart thing, etc.
What are you on about? You're not flashing anything.
You've been told all u do is change a few lines of code and that is correct. Search for the word 'Tiamo' in this forum.
Apple don't just stop supporting old hardware, they often ACTIVELY prevent the new software from running on it. This is virtually all hit with no miss.
I’ve run my 1,1 Mac Pro on Mountain Lion, Mavericks and now Yosemite with little issue. The only case you might even remotely make in Apples favour is that of energy efficiency of the hardware and even then you have to ask yourself if the energy saved outweighs the cost of making and disposing of a new unit.
I had an old Windows box that would run Windows with below the posted min specs.
Apple are horrible in this regard.
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Sorry, it is "the love of money" that is the problem that corrupts and not money in itself or capitalism. Just like the love of control and centralised power in socialism is the problem and not socialism per say. You can disagree with or agree with a particular system, but don't distort reality of a system that you disagree with to support a system that you believe in.
Irrelevant. There are plenty of vintage cars that still work, whats your point?
I wonder what happened to Apple's relationship with SunPower, which they have used for other solar projects.