Hot Multi-OS Switching — Why Isn't It Everywhere?

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 2, 2011 @02:22AM from the all-the-tradeoffs-conspire dept.

First time accepted submitter recrudescence writes "Slashdot readers might remember the Touchbook announcement from Always Innovating stirring up a lot of excitement in the Slashdot community back in 2009 (almost a year before the iPad was announced and essentially killed this off, and way before the Asus Transformer, which is essentially the same idea). The company's new product seems to support Hot multi-OS switching, supposedly with a minimal performance penalty. What seems strange to me is, why haven't other developers jumped in on this already? Macs, for instance, made a huge campaign of their products' new ability to finally support Microsoft Windows, yet (disregarding emulation options) they're still limited to booting to a single working system at any time."

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Re:Virtualization by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-02 03:04 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Because it's stupid.
Personally, I just run Windows. It does everything that I want and it's stable. There is no reason for me to ever use Mac OS or a Linux based OS since neither can do as much as Windows can.