Re: why did apple go mac?

[frankc <frankc@srv.net>]

> In article <90bo1c$ca8o$1@newssvr06-en0.news.prodigy.com>, "Kelli
> Halliburton" <kelli217@crosswinds.not> wrote:
>
> >Try adding anything in the way of cards to your iMac or G4 Cube. *That's*
> >what Supertimer is talking about -- the move toward a closed system.
>
> That would be true if the iMac and Cube were the only Macs, but they are
> not... Excluding expandability slots reduces the cost of the machine, and
> for some people this is preferable to paying for slots they will never
> use/need.  For others there are the tower G4s.

Yes, but in the past even Macs with expansion cards were still a closed
machine.  You had to pay Apple for the "privilege" of producing a card for
their platform.  This goes for the ADB bus as well.  You also had to buy an
"Apple Approved" hard drive to go in the Mac as well.  Some of these were
circumvented by software, but the proprietary slots and buses were not.  I
understand now that the G4s can take PCI cards.  I hear even the "Cube" can
take one card.  This is a big improvement that makes the Mac a more attractive
target for hardware development.

Frank