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this round of the OS Lord today our two systems will go head-to-head to see who has the greatest ability to be customized in terms of hardware interface and software but before we begin a quick story Samara was guys it was about a year ago and decided I needed a new computer for my workshop now I really wanted a small form factor and because I had some allege 10 specific software Warren to run I want to be a mac right so in that case what does that mean mac mini but you know I didn't need an optical drive I didn't need a firewire and didn't care what it look like since it was just going to basically a garage so you know the mini would have been a complete waste of money for me so what does that mean well time to hackintosh right now I built hackintosh just before but when I did before I kind of you know you go on the forums you find the parts that work best turn to a hackintosh and you make it happen I found it a lot more difficult starting with specific requirements that wanted for this machine like you know for example I want him a mini-itx pork so I wanted that small form-factor building components on top of that and then making sure that they could actually work with OS 10 now it turned out to be a lot more difficult than I thought and not even worth it so what ended up doing was just buying a net top that ran windows and then finding an alternate version of the software that i was using that would do the same thing and work with windows so i think that's a problem that a lot of people run into up there it's not that they happen to love windows and hit OS 10 it's that windows is really their only option for the specific needs they have for their computer I know this is an obvious point guys but I really want to hammer this one home so let's do a quick search for a windows pc here on amazon you see I get over 2,000 results pcs of all shapes and sizes you can possibly want running windows let's go ahead and do the same thing but with Macintosh 42 results and that includes really old models this really illustrates one of the biggest problems people have with OS 10 and that it's nearly impossible to get it on the exact type of machine that you want even if you're willing to go the hackintosh route you never have this problem with windows of course customizing is not just about hardware it's also about interface and ever since the earliest days of guis people have liked to tweet the systems to meet their personality when those wins in this as well for example look at this setup i have here i use a program called rainmeter to actually customize my interface to match that of the new windows phone which improves my productivity and looks really cool there's no way to do something like this with OS 10 overlay skins on top of it in what Stan you can tweak things in terminal or use software such as geektool to customize it but it doesn't even come close to what you can do with Windows we haven't even gotten into making changes to the underlying system but I don't think we need to this is an obvious dominating win for Windows this win for Windows however does come at a price and that's something we'll talk about in a future round of our OS battle here on TechnoBuffalo one last thing before I go your question to answer in the comments this week is that do you feel Apple should license OS 10 to other computer makers