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If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch?
A not-so anonymous Anonymous Coward would like to put this query before you: "I'm not a fan of Windows, and never have been, but I am a fan of the x86 architecture. I really like Linux, but there are still a few issues that are keeping me from switching completely. I really like Mac OS X but I don't want to drop $2000 on a computer that is only as fast as an x86 computer at half the price. Darwin, Mac OS X's unix-ish core, has been ported to x86 and Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn OS seems to be disliked by everyone but Microsoft. If Apple released Mac OS X to compete with Longhorn, would you switch?"
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In a heartbeat.
Yeah, they have: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/vi rtualpc.aspx?pid=vpcdemo
(You could run it pretty fast if you had enough RAM to put the entire C drive in RAM with a RAM disk.)
I'm writing this on a Linux box that hasn't been rebooted since March.
so you are not running the latest kernel version of linux, shame on you!
well you know what they say "Ignorance is bliss"
You don't have to be smart to use a Mac, you just have to be smart enough to buy one
Why on earth should I degrade from Linux to Mac OSX?
What you're saying is that you have a bunch of proprietary hardware with funny cables. Many of us avoided macs in the 68k and early PPC days specifically to keep away from shit like that. Every mac I've seen had about the same amount of cabling as a PC, as the other poster was saying. In fact I have an apple keyboard on my PC because I love it so, even if I do have to open and clean it periodically. I have hair on [the backs of] my hands :) and even that ends up in my keyboard, let alone crumbs and stuff. Yes, they tried to teach me not to eat at the computers in elementary school, but it never took.
Having external video is not enough - if the internal video dies, you're stuck with a big heavy lump of shit in your PC. Of course, they sell all in one PCs these days, and all in one PCs predate the Macintosh, so it's a stupid argument anyway.
EFI BIOS may not be here but you only need to deal with the PC BIOS at boot time if your drivers are good enough. Interfacing with the BIOS much is a sign of a stupid operating system.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
After a week, though, I swore I'd never go back. OSX is amazing. It's the first time in 15 years of professional computer use that I haven't had to *think* about the operating system.
;-)
Comments like that warm me from the bottom of my stock options
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Likewise my OSX has _never_ crashed, but I did get to visit all those bad sites, treaded all over the shop like a drunk, and didn't have to bother with a NAT, firewall, virus scanner, heck i randomly open attachments full of windows virii, I'm raw on the Internet and nothings gotten in.
Yes. Because everyone knows that stylish brushed aluminum cases with holes in them and blue or white LEDs add at least 5 gigaflops to a system right off the bat. ;P
;P
By that standard PCs with those neon lights and side panels should increase processing power to the "nth" factor!
Ricers with Office Max wastebaskets hanging off the exaust and underside neon and hood LEDs should get 400 miles to the gallon and have a starting RPM of 100,000 with 12,000,000 HP.
Mustbe some, as yet, undiscovered property of neon and LEDs to increase the performance of, well... ANYTHING. By that logic, an old diner with more neon should be a real mean mover.
Ah yes...
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Please name a web site that you absolutly have to have MSIE for it to work on, and I will show you a better alternative.
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
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I'd be on it like white on rice.
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