Subj : Re: Running linux in vm o
To : Nightfox
From : Derision
Date : Mon Oct 22 2018 09:24 pm
Re: Re: Running linux in vm o
By: Nightfox to Derision on Mon Oct 22 2018 09:53:23
> De> My Mac has a blu-ray drive. Er, though I grafted it in there myself. It
> De> didn't come with it.
>
> Yeah, Apple never made an actual Mac model that came with a blu-ray drive as
> standard. I'm not sure what software (if any) might be available for OS X
> to burn blu-ray discs or to watch blu-ray movies on a Mac.
The ability to burn to a blu-ray disc is built-in to macOS. There are external
USB burners that work fine out of the box for burning to and reading burned
blu-ray discs. Playing a movie on a blu-ray is another story. There ARE a few
pieces of software... Macgo Blu-ray Player and some other bits, that'll do it,
but it usually isn't cheap, and kind of not worth it when you can just download
a digital file of the same quality.
> I always think it's good to have a modular and upgradeable desktop PC. Some
> of Apple's older ads for their G3 and G4 desktop Macs advertized easy
> upgradeability as a feature.
I still have my old Quicksilver G4, which I've upgraded and maxed out over the
years. Despite the fact that it can't run any version of OSX over 10.5, I've
found that it's still a perfectly solid workhorse for stuff like email, web
browsing, even watching YouTube videos (beefier-than-stock video card, 1.5GB of
RAM, and dual 1Ghz G4s can actually pull it off, at least at 480p) is entirely
doable. And, good lord, that graphite case is sex-ay.
I guess that might be the argument AGAINST having such an expandable system, in
that lots of users would rather beef it up and expand it rather than buy next
years' system the minute it comes out, thus depriving Apple of their desired
profit.
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