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On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:29:45 -0500, HK wrote:


The simple answer is that there are a few apps I use without Mac
equivalents. Windows runs just as well on a Mac through bootcamp as it
does on a plain old PC that does not run the Mac OS.

If it's only a few apps, why bother with a dual-boot? Why not set up
Windows to run virtualized from within the Mac OS? VirtualBox, I believe
works with Mac OS X.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox

I have *1* Windows program that I still occasionally use. I run it from
a box, and never have to leave Linux. There's even a Windows Lite, that
has most of the BS stripped from it. Linux, or in your case, Mac OS,
controls the computer so you don't have to worry about running that
insecure, buggy POS called Windows. ;-)

If you are interested, I can point you to the needed documentations to
get you going.

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thunder wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:29:45 -0500, HK wrote:


The simple answer is that there are a few apps I use without Mac
equivalents. Windows runs just as well on a Mac through bootcamp as it
does on a plain old PC that does not run the Mac OS.

If it's only a few apps, why bother with a dual-boot? Why not set up
Windows to run virtualized from within the Mac OS? VirtualBox, I believe
works with Mac OS X.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox

I have *1* Windows program that I still occasionally use. I run it from
a box, and never have to leave Linux. There's even a Windows Lite, that
has most of the BS stripped from it. Linux, or in your case, Mac OS,
controls the computer so you don't have to worry about running that
insecure, buggy POS called Windows. ;-)

If you are interested, I can point you to the needed documentations to
get you going.


I've tried both the commonly available virtual apps for Macs - VMware
and Parallels. Both work ok, but you still take a performance hit. I
don't spend a lot of time in Windows anymore, and the Mac shutdown and
boot into Vista only takes about two minutes. Not a biggie. Thanks for
the offer, though. I'll take a peek at VirtualBox.

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On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:29:45 -0500, HK wrote:


The simple answer is that there are a few apps I use without Mac
equivalents. Windows runs just as well on a Mac through bootcamp as it
does on a plain old PC that does not run the Mac OS.

If it's only a few apps, why bother with a dual-boot? Why not set up
Windows to run virtualized from within the Mac OS? VirtualBox, I believe
works with Mac OS X.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox

I have *1* Windows program that I still occasionally use. I run it from
a box, and never have to leave Linux. There's even a Windows Lite, that
has most of the BS stripped from it. Linux, or in your case, Mac OS,
controls the computer so you don't have to worry about running that
insecure, buggy POS called Windows. ;-)

If you are interested, I can point you to the needed documentations to
get you going.


I recently bought a Playstation 3. Now, don't laugh. It's for a project I
want to attempt, using the
unit as a "server" of sorts. It's quite an impressive machine, as
computers go.
I am a little confused as to what OS it operates on. I've heard that it
runs Linux and I've also heard
that you can now, or will soon be able to load Firefox on it to use as a web
browser.
I've connected to the Internet wirelessly with it on our home network, but
don't quite understand the browser they use.

Anyway, if all works as planned, this thing will be the heart of a home
entertainment center with massive storage for movies, music, etc.

Oh, and the kids (including me) can play games. The one that came with it
(Drake's Uncharted Fortune) has me hooked but I can get beyond the plane
wreck chapter.

Eisboch

Eisboch

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On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:29:45 -0500, HK wrote:


The simple answer is that there are a few apps I use without Mac
equivalents. Windows runs just as well on a Mac through bootcamp as it
does on a plain old PC that does not run the Mac OS.

If it's only a few apps, why bother with a dual-boot? Why not set up
Windows to run virtualized from within the Mac OS? VirtualBox, I believe
works with Mac OS X.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox

I have *1* Windows program that I still occasionally use. I run it from
a box, and never have to leave Linux. There's even a Windows Lite, that
has most of the BS stripped from it. Linux, or in your case, Mac OS,
controls the computer so you don't have to worry about running that
insecure, buggy POS called Windows. ;-)

If you are interested, I can point you to the needed documentations to
get you going.


I recently bought a Playstation 3. Now, don't laugh. It's for a project
I want to attempt, using the
unit as a "server" of sorts. It's quite an impressive machine, as
computers go.
I am a little confused as to what OS it operates on. I've heard that it
runs Linux and I've also heard
that you can now, or will soon be able to load Firefox on it to use as a
web browser.
I've connected to the Internet wirelessly with it on our home network, but
don't quite understand the browser they use.

Anyway, if all works as planned, this thing will be the heart of a home
entertainment center with massive storage for movies, music, etc.

Oh, and the kids (including me) can play games. The one that came with
it (Drake's Uncharted Fortune) has me hooked but I can get beyond the
plane wreck chapter.

Eisboch


Meant to say "I can't get beyond the plane wreck chapter".

Tough when you can type faster than your fingers.

Eisboch

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On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:10:46 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


I am a little confused as to what OS it operates on. I've heard that
it runs Linux and I've also heard
that you can now, or will soon be able to load Firefox on it to use as a
web browser.

I don't think it runs Linux, but it definitely can run Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_3

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HK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

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Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime
soon, but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed
that significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect,
who are more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math
processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do
via Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned
it onto a DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run
Vista as the alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be
"server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it
strictly a completely new OS install?

Eisboch


Dunno. Haven't even looked at the MS web page on it yet. My guess is
that it'll upgrade a VISTA or it'll do a fresh install.


It's funny. Due to all the horror stories I had heard about Vista, I
was very hesitant to go with it on this new computer. I tried to pay
attention to recommendations regarding RAM, etc. and made sure it had
4GB and was the 64 bit version.

So far, I haven't had a single serious hiccup. In fact, only once did
a program (I think it was InfanView) temporarily "lock up" and
deliver a "program is not responding" message, but as I was reading
it, it automatically cleared itself and continued running. That's
the only time I've seen any sort of glitch and it went away by itself.

Eisboch

If I remember correctly, you didn't purchase your new computer till
after Windows had sent out the SP1 upgrade, that did correct a number of
their initial problems. From what I have read, Windows 7 will run
substantially faster than Vista, but I still will wait till they have
their SP1 upgrade on Windows 7.

My son and daughter love their MAC laptops, but I really don't see any
advantages they have over my Windows XP that would make me want to pay
double the price for a MAC.

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Eisboch wrote:

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Most of the bad press on Vista relates to performance. In motor terms
Vista us a 4 cyl that gets 2 mpg. You can put a lot of CPU/system to
it and it performs like a slug. While if you are just doing surfing
or email, you would never know the difference, try a large file
transfer disk to disk or network to/from a disk and compare to a Mac,
Linux or even XP. You will find Vista is slow like pig.



Maybe I just don't run any really memory extensive programs. I can
only compare a few that I consider to be memory extensive and so far
Vista with 4GB of RAM seems to be a little faster and smoother running
than my older XP computer (with 3GB RAM) running the same thing. For
example, running flight simulator in Google Earth. I think that's
fairly memory extensive.

The other thing is that the Vista computer boots up and shuts down a
heck of a lot faster than the XP computer. Both are HP laptops. Maybe
the difference is the CPU. The new computer is a dual core (or whatever
they call it), 64 bit processor. I think the XP is a single chip, 32 bit.

I don't know if a computer with Vista purchased recently is any
different than the early Vista releases. All I know is so far I am very
happy with it. In fact, I like it better than the XP which seems
"clunky" by comparison now.

I reserve the right to change my mind in the future. :-)

Eisboch



The Vista SP1 upgrade did address a number of problems, including the
memory hog and speed issues with the orginal release of Vista.
According to PCTipsBox, SP1 increase the speed of Vista up to 86%.

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If I remember correctly, you didn't purchase your new computer till after
Windows had sent out the SP1 upgrade, that did correct a number of their
initial problems. From what I have read, Windows 7 will run
substantially faster than Vista, but I still will wait till they have
their SP1 upgrade on Windows 7.


My version of Vista has SP1. Maybe that's why I haven't noticed any
problems yet.

Eisboch