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What on earth does the author mean by "just like Mac and OS 10"? Apple laptops will run other OSes, including Windows and Linux, just fine.

(Linux support for the latest set of Macbook Airs is still imperfect - but the hardware is brand-new, and it'll undoubtedly get better with time. The hardware is not the problem here; it's practically a reference design!)

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I'm wondering what the author means with "new laptops locked to support only windows". Sounds more like a bug in a specific laptop / series (huge difference).

Yes, I think his information about Mac hardware is very outdated. Sure years ago only MacOS would run on Apple hardware but after the move to Intel chips it has been wide open.

And even that doesn't make sense as a complaint. Mac OS is somewhat hardware-locked (although, as you've mentioned, it's easily defeated), but the hardware is not restricted to running only Mac OS. So it's not at all analogous to the situation the author's encountering with his laptop refusing to run not-Windows.

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