[X4U] Aperture as sleazy Apple hardware marketing ploy

[Zane H. Healy]

At 6:57 AM -0800 11/19/05, Jim Robertson wrote:
>Apple has just place an application on their website that tests hardware to
>see whether it complies with Aperture specs. It reports whether the program
>can be installed on the system running the compatibility checker, and if
>not, why not. My dual 1.8 G5 flunks, but it's because of the video card
>(replaceable) as does my 1.25 GHz Al PowerBook, but that's because I have
>only 512 MB of RAM (easily upgradeable).

I take it that when you run the app it lists each reason that you 
can't install the software?  In my case it complains that I can't run 
it on my dual 2Ghz G5 because I'm running 10.3.9 (OK, that's 
understandable).

		Zane


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