Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X

Re:Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X by tsieling on Thursday April 09, 2015 @02:06PM (#9349654)

> Apple's model customer is one who upgrades often.

I don't know any tech company that doesn't have that idea of a model customer :)

To their credit, I can run the latest on a pretty old Mac Mini at home. It's not as fast as it used to be, but it is supported long after the form factor of the Mini has undergone big changes. I don't consider myself being squeezed to upgrade.

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Re:Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X by s_q_b on Thursday April 09, 2015 @03:10PM (#9350181)

I booted up one of those G3 candy colored clamshell iBooks from the early 2000s recently. Not only did start flawlessly, it found and connected to the WiFi, and actually loaded Google on Internet Explorer for Mac.

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Re:Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X by 72deluxe on Friday April 10, 2015 @05:20AM (#9353246)

Out of interest, did it display the results pages from Google alright? Or was the CSS and JavaScript etc. not recognised?

Was it usable, speedwise, as a machine?

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Re:Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X by s_q_b on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @05:55PM (#9423839)

To answer your question about Google specifically, yes, it did work fine for search. It wasn't even that slow.

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Re:Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X by s_q_b on Friday April 10, 2015 @12:28PM (#9355386)

As a word processor, typing out some code, or as a spreadsheet machine, yes, it was perfectly serviceable.

It worked with very little of the modern web, however.

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