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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Well ... perhaps I got that idea because you can't go into most electronics stores and purchase Apple parts. Maybe they are easier to come by than I thought ...
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You can get them, but because Apple has always had a determined proprietary streak, they will cost more then the corresponding parts for a PC.
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I just haven't noticed a lot of Apple PC users tinkering with the insides of their computers. Because ... it was the hardware that I was talking about more than the software with that analogy
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The market Apple is aiming at generally isn't interested in hacking the hardware, so no surprise.
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.... although, do they have a lot of programs out there that let you mess with the OS and default settings??
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Depending upon what you want to do, thre may be no need to install programs to do that.
As mentioned, OS/X uses a modified BSD Unix core, and installs the Gnu utilities to round things out. *nix provides lots of ways to tweak the way the OS works, though you may need to get down and dirty with config files to do it.
The UI is based on X-Windows with (I believe) the KDE widget set. Lots of ways to customize that, too, without having to install third party software.
(And for that matter, a lot of the customization possible on Windows doesn't actually
require third party tools. But third party tools exist because much of it involves editing the Windows registry, and the tools provide a simple GUI to specify what you want to change and make the registry edits for you.)
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Dennis