typhoon
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The only "proprietary" hardware left in modern Macs: the processor, motherboard, and chipset (and to be practical, the only bit of that you'd ever mess with is the CPU). Tinker all you want with anything else. When they transition over to Intel next year, I don't know what people are gonna complain about. Besides the mouse.namkcuR said:One, I'm a techie kind of guy. I like to 'play' with my computers. By 'play', I mean having total flexibility in customizing my computers, and that means software AND hardware. Software-wise, Macs are very flexible, no arguement. But hardware-wise, Macs use propietary hardware and it is a bitch to replace them or upgrade them. Doing that is much easier with PCs. Oh, and I HATE the one-button mice - although I'm sure there are two-button mice you can buy for Macs. But the hardware flexibility issue is one of the BIG reasons why I don't use Macs.
And really, the PowerPC is no more "proprietary" than the Intel stuff. There's more than one company making them (Apple itself buys them from more than one company, Freescale/Motorola for the G4s and IBM for the G5s). There's more than one company using them in their hardware. You can buy non-Apple PowerPC hardware, it's just costly due to economies of scale (yes, sometimes it's cheaper to buy a Mac).