Yeah, i'm not counting 3d holographic/volumetric type display. Presumably that will be the next generation of device, once we're "done" with the current 2d display method of rendering and some new display tech comes out.
Workplaces may vary. Management tools for my SAN are windows based. Health and Safety system is Windows based. Plenty of industry specific apps we need to run are both Windows client and require Windows servers for licensing (Surpac, Mine24d, Minecad, etc.).
We don't have much choice but to have a significant Windows infrastructure - many if the industry standard apps that have feasible alternative in the mining industry are Windows only these days.
Plenty of people with macs run 16 GB or more, myself included. Mavericks is typically getting an extra 50% into RAM before hitting swap. So 24 GB on a 16 GB system, as tested by Ars.
The bigger your workload and the more RAM you have, the more effective this will be.
Oh and by "spinning the drive up" that includes SSDs. SSD is obviously not a moving part, but waking it up, reading/writing data and remaining awake while waiting for the SSD (which is hundreds of times slower than RAM) still uses power.
Essentially it means that the OS can keep from using swap. Spinning the drive up and remaining awake to page in and out takes a lot longer (and thus the CPU, disk, etc. must be powered up and in an active state for far longer) than compressing the memory and staying off swap. The compressed memory isn't the only power saving feature Mavericks has obviously, but it does contribute to keeping parts of the system asleep as much as possible to save power.
Haven't seen the mouse problem in 8.1 yet. Apparently it occurs in some games, but I've not seen it in the 80 I have installed yet. but, I'm willing to bet that the number of games the problem DOES NOT occur in is equal or greater to the entire Linux game library. And yeah, I run a bunch of stuff too, OS X, Win7, Win8.1, server 2003, 2008r2, FreeBSD and Linux.
Just compile drivers/extra features as loadable modules, and get on with your life? The whole obsession with recompiling the kernel and stripping things (rather than just building as loadable modules) is (for 99% of users) just making work for yourself when you discover that "oh, crap this software i'm trying to use needs the frumble-mumbo kernel feature".
Linus is fallible like everyone else. Remember that. Otherwise, v1.0 would have been pretty much perfect for single core, and 2.2 would have been a perfect example of SMP done right.
Pretty much the way FreeBSD do it. You have -CURRENT (at the moment, v10), which is the bleeding edge, you have current -STABLE which is where most of the stability/bugfix stuff often shakes out and then you have the previous -STABLE release which is for those who are extremely conservative.
Pretty much that. I'm a Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux user, and OS X is "worth it", to have a well supported UNIX on really nice hardware that "just works". OS X does pretty much everything a Linux box can/will do, you can get right down into the technical low level stuff if you want, but if you just want to do something simple, it is simple to the point of being virtually automatic.
If you haven't spent much time with OS X and are just judging it based on the Aqua UI fluff, you're making a huge mistake.
OS X isn't just like old classic OS X. It's basically NextSTEP with a different skin, and NextSTEP was renowned as one of the most powerful and easy to develop for platforms in existence, at least 10-15 years ahead of its time. As above, most open source software will compile, and if you want to write GUI based stuff, Cocoa is awesome.
No one is claiming that compressed memory is unique to Mac OS X. However, it is a new feature that it didn't have before, and it has drastically improved the performance and power consumption for OS X users.
No. Mavericks has a huge number of improvements with the VM subsystem (compressed memory to avoid swap at all costs for better performance and power consumption), timer coalescing, etc. I am seeing a "no bullshit" battery life improvement of 15-20 percent on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15" - and improved performance.
Mavericks is the biggest improvement in OS X performance since Snow Leopard.
If performance is all you care about, Windows is not the OS for you and has not been for some time. However if you need to administer a corporate AD environment (or want to be able to run pretty much every game on Steam), Linux is a non-starter.
Also, by the time the A1200 came out with 68020 - it was very much a case of too little too late. The cost of an A3000 or A4000 was pretty much as much or more than a Mac. If the A1200 came out in 1990 or 1991, Commodore might have survived. But it was way too late. The A3000 and A4000 were nice, but the 3000 was just too expensive and by the time the 4000 came out it was just too expensive for the spec..
Hence why I said "if Apple release facetime for Windows". Skype isn't really cross platform either, their Linux support is/has been abysmal and not continuing under microsoft's ownership. What you or I would prefer is a bit irrelevant - if Apple bundled Facetime with iTunes on Windows it would be on probably half the Windows install base in a matter of months, and that sort of market penetration would be enough.
Because constantly dealing with patches for wine and hacking the configuration file to make things works is less hassle right? Plenty of the games I still play do not work under wine unfortunately.
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Yeah, i'm not counting 3d holographic/volumetric type display. Presumably that will be the next generation of device, once we're "done" with the current 2d display method of rendering and some new display tech comes out.
"that have NO feasible alternative", i mean.
Workplaces may vary. Management tools for my SAN are windows based. Health and Safety system is Windows based. Plenty of industry specific apps we need to run are both Windows client and require Windows servers for licensing (Surpac, Mine24d, Minecad, etc.).
We don't have much choice but to have a significant Windows infrastructure - many if the industry standard apps that have feasible alternative in the mining industry are Windows only these days.
Lol. moderation as troll. No, genuine curiosity as the only AAA games in my Steam library on Linux are Portal and Half Life 2.
Plenty of people with macs run 16 GB or more, myself included. Mavericks is typically getting an extra 50% into RAM before hitting swap. So 24 GB on a 16 GB system, as tested by Ars.
The bigger your workload and the more RAM you have, the more effective this will be.
Oh and you know how hard it is to install Python in OS X? It's installed by default.
So by your metric, Solaris was not UNIX?
Oh and by "spinning the drive up" that includes SSDs. SSD is obviously not a moving part, but waking it up, reading/writing data and remaining awake while waiting for the SSD (which is hundreds of times slower than RAM) still uses power.
Essentially it means that the OS can keep from using swap. Spinning the drive up and remaining awake to page in and out takes a lot longer (and thus the CPU, disk, etc. must be powered up and in an active state for far longer) than compressing the memory and staying off swap. The compressed memory isn't the only power saving feature Mavericks has obviously, but it does contribute to keeping parts of the system asleep as much as possible to save power.
Pretty much. But if you are involved in the corporate world and AD networks, you'll end up with 2012 boxes to administer sooner or later.
Haven't seen the mouse problem in 8.1 yet. Apparently it occurs in some games, but I've not seen it in the 80 I have installed yet. but, I'm willing to bet that the number of games the problem DOES NOT occur in is equal or greater to the entire Linux game library. And yeah, I run a bunch of stuff too, OS X, Win7, Win8.1, server 2003, 2008r2, FreeBSD and Linux.
Just compile drivers/extra features as loadable modules, and get on with your life? The whole obsession with recompiling the kernel and stripping things (rather than just building as loadable modules) is (for 99% of users) just making work for yourself when you discover that "oh, crap this software i'm trying to use needs the frumble-mumbo kernel feature".
Oh, and I was booting ELF kernels on my 486 in 4 megabytes of RAM back in 1995, so it wasn't the ELF change.
One of the most frustrating things for me is attempting to read a single paragraph of about 500 words.
Bugfixes are in service packs, which aren't PAID UPGRADES.
Linus is fallible like everyone else. Remember that. Otherwise, v1.0 would have been pretty much perfect for single core, and 2.2 would have been a perfect example of SMP done right.
Pretty much the way FreeBSD do it. You have -CURRENT (at the moment, v10), which is the bleeding edge, you have current -STABLE which is where most of the stability/bugfix stuff often shakes out and then you have the previous -STABLE release which is for those who are extremely conservative.
Often, it's the "minor" bugs which are a warning of a more serious underlying problem that will bite you in the arse later in a more serious manner.
Pretty much that. I'm a Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux user, and OS X is "worth it", to have a well supported UNIX on really nice hardware that "just works". OS X does pretty much everything a Linux box can/will do, you can get right down into the technical low level stuff if you want, but if you just want to do something simple, it is simple to the point of being virtually automatic.
If you haven't spent much time with OS X and are just judging it based on the Aqua UI fluff, you're making a huge mistake.
OS X isn't just like old classic OS X. It's basically NextSTEP with a different skin, and NextSTEP was renowned as one of the most powerful and easy to develop for platforms in existence, at least 10-15 years ahead of its time. As above, most open source software will compile, and if you want to write GUI based stuff, Cocoa is awesome.
No one is claiming that compressed memory is unique to Mac OS X. However, it is a new feature that it didn't have before, and it has drastically improved the performance and power consumption for OS X users.
No. Mavericks has a huge number of improvements with the VM subsystem (compressed memory to avoid swap at all costs for better performance and power consumption), timer coalescing, etc. I am seeing a "no bullshit" battery life improvement of 15-20 percent on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15" - and improved performance.
Mavericks is the biggest improvement in OS X performance since Snow Leopard.
If performance is all you care about, Windows is not the OS for you and has not been for some time. However if you need to administer a corporate AD environment (or want to be able to run pretty much every game on Steam), Linux is a non-starter.
Also, by the time the A1200 came out with 68020 - it was very much a case of too little too late. The cost of an A3000 or A4000 was pretty much as much or more than a Mac. If the A1200 came out in 1990 or 1991, Commodore might have survived. But it was way too late. The A3000 and A4000 were nice, but the 3000 was just too expensive and by the time the 4000 came out it was just too expensive for the spec..
Hence why I said "if Apple release facetime for Windows". Skype isn't really cross platform either, their Linux support is/has been abysmal and not continuing under microsoft's ownership. What you or I would prefer is a bit irrelevant - if Apple bundled Facetime with iTunes on Windows it would be on probably half the Windows install base in a matter of months, and that sort of market penetration would be enough.
Because constantly dealing with patches for wine and hacking the configuration file to make things works is less hassle right? Plenty of the games I still play do not work under wine unfortunately.