Re: why did apple go mac?

["Kelli Halliburton" <kelli217@crosswinds.not>]

> Gee, I can put in a couple of graphics cards in my Mac, and
> that option is expanding.  Sound card?  Why?  It's a nice standard
> on the motherboard.  I've watched a friend with a PC try to get some
> of his games to work right with his Soundblaster card...it was a
> hoot listening to him swear at it.  And he'd still get games where
> the sound didn't work right.  And as for putting in all the memory
> I want...I can go to 1GB of memory on my old PM7500.  The Macs have
> almost always been good on the memory expansion thing.
>
> As for modifying the hardware, what would you modify?  The only
> thing I ever noticed people modifying was the processor and you
> can do that on a lot of Macs.  What else would you do?

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.