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hammerdrill376:
Dell Deminsion desktop..older...think we bought it in 03 but still running well and does what I need.
TheSlyBear:
--- Quote from: TomGallagher on October 15, 2008, 12:30:30 PM ---I run IE7 and have never had a crash.
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You are in the vast minority.
Maltz:
--- Quote from: time2shine on October 15, 2008, 10:32:21 AM ---Get a mac with windows vmware. best of both worlds. O0
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Agreed. I'm a long time Mac AND Windows guy, but whenever I have the choice, I go with Mac. For certain things like MS Access or SAS, I have to use Windows. I actually use Parallels, but VMWare is the same thing. For games and such, you can even boot directly into Windows on any Mac and get the full performance out of the machine. Macs may cost a little more, but the flexibility rocks.
Oh, and Mac OS X is UNIX. It's the best of all *3* worlds.
Alexander215:
--- Quote from: Maltz on October 23, 2008, 12:43:07 AM ---
--- Quote from: time2shine on October 15, 2008, 10:32:21 AM ---Get a mac with windows vmware. best of both worlds. O0
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Agreed. I'm a long time Mac AND Windows guy, but whenever I have the choice, I go with Mac. For certain things like MS Access or SAS, I have to use Windows. I actually use Parallels, but VMWare is the same thing. For games and such, you can even boot directly into Windows on any Mac and get the full performance out of the machine. Macs may cost a little more, but the flexibility rocks.
Oh, and Mac OS X is UNIX. It's the best of all *3* worlds.
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What do you mean by flexibility? The ability to dual boot? I tri-booted a friends laptop with XP, Ubuntu, and I believe mac's 10.4 OS back in 2006. I don't understand why people think they are enslaved to Mac's hardware. It's not easy to do, but it ain't hard. Google will find you lots of tutorials out there.
Maltz:
--- Quote from: shdwwlk on October 25, 2008, 10:56:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: Maltz on October 23, 2008, 12:43:07 AM ---Agreed. I'm a long time Mac AND Windows guy, but whenever I have the choice, I go with Mac. For certain things like MS Access or SAS, I have to use Windows. I actually use Parallels, but VMWare is the same thing. For games and such, you can even boot directly into Windows on any Mac and get the full performance out of the machine. Macs may cost a little more, but the flexibility rocks.
Oh, and Mac OS X is UNIX. It's the best of all *3* worlds.
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What do you mean by flexibility? The ability to dual boot? I tri-booted a friends laptop with XP, Ubuntu, and I believe mac's 10.4 OS back in 2006. I don't understand why people think they are enslaved to Mac's hardware. It's not easy to do, but it ain't hard. Google will find you lots of tutorials out there.
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I like the Mac OS because in my experience, it's easier to get stuff done with minimal setup and tweaking. So that is my OS of choice. Other people have other preferences that work well for them, and that's cool.
But running Mac OS on non-Apple hardware requires a fair bit of the very tweaking and hacking I'm trying to avoid by using Mac OS in the first place. And it has to be repeated for every system update. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy that kind of thing sometimes. But on a hobby machine. Not the machine I actually have to get things done with. Being able to run Mac OS, and being able to run it trouble-free is worth something to me, so I go Apple. All that said, hacking Mac OS X to run on your PC can be good way to introduce yourself to the OS, but for the long term, it kind of defeats the purpose.
Now, whether Apple should allow Mac OS on non-Apple hardware, well, I think that would be GREAT! Especially now that they have their iPod/iPhone business to support the loss in Mac revenue. But I'm not going to hold my breath for that as long as Steve Jobs is holding the reigns.
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