Well.... easy now. A windows / linux box is a little different than a Win / OSX box on the new intel macs.
You are correct in that you have delays in updates but I wouldn't go so far to say that this is any different that supporting 2 machines.
In Windows with a good group policy any of your updates or virus defs will update as soon as the machine comes on. If you are using the right tools with OS X, (like Apple remote desktop) you can also have them run tasks when the machine comes on. Also using apple remote desktop you can issue one command and reboot all the machines in to windows. You could script that if you really want to be sure that both sides get the updates you are looking for.
In a school setting (such as mine) the dual boot is amazing! Students have access to multiple OS's and applications all in one room....I'm not sure what kind of cron jobs you need to run on a workstation anyway
I have the same setup although we have a script that has netrestore restore the one partition then the other with only 1 click to save us time.
I am lucky in that our labs have gigabit networking and of course the new iMacs and the Apple Xserv (imaging server) have GB network cards. It takes about 16 mins to do each machine. Although we do try to only do a few at a time because you still get bottlenecks. Still... we can get an entire lab of 20 done in about an hour.
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Well.... easy now. A windows / linux box is a little different than a Win / OSX box on the new intel macs. You are correct in that you have delays in updates but I wouldn't go so far to say that this is any different that supporting 2 machines. In Windows with a good group policy any of your updates or virus defs will update as soon as the machine comes on. If you are using the right tools with OS X, (like Apple remote desktop) you can also have them run tasks when the machine comes on. Also using apple remote desktop you can issue one command and reboot all the machines in to windows. You could script that if you really want to be sure that both sides get the updates you are looking for. In a school setting (such as mine) the dual boot is amazing! Students have access to multiple OS's and applications all in one room. ...I'm not sure what kind of cron jobs you need to run on a workstation anyway
I have the same setup although we have a script that has netrestore restore the one partition then the other with only 1 click to save us time. I am lucky in that our labs have gigabit networking and of course the new iMacs and the Apple Xserv (imaging server) have GB network cards. It takes about 16 mins to do each machine. Although we do try to only do a few at a time because you still get bottlenecks. Still... we can get an entire lab of 20 done in about an hour.