while it would be nice, its not easy to do. The article is a bit misleading saying virtualiztion is better than emulation, since all virtualization software, even parallels, uses emulation as well. The video in the virtual machine does not use the systems video card at all. the video card Windows has acess to is a 100% emulated video card.
not the same thing. We are talking about Core Duo chips here, not Dual Core. Yes Core Duo chips are Dual Core, Dual Core is not Core Duo. Core Duo is a brand name given to an exact architecture, it doesnt just mean dual core.
ok thats the longest post i ever made on slashdot, but why does it auto word wrap everything? what a peice of trash i had that all on seperate lines. Didn't know i had to write posts in HTML.... talk about crappy.
1. I love the dual monitor set up in OSX, not sure what your issues are unles soyur clicking through every single res possible and studing it for awhile or something back and forth, but thats kind of silly.
2. It has large amounts of memory reservered for many things, and looks like its using a lot. Its only slightly higher than my BSD or linux boxes.
3. Half a second delay on mouse events? sounds like you have something set up wrong, havent ever seen that.
4. I personally dont care about having a configurable WM. the Defaults are decent enough
5. I like Apple Mail much more than Thunderbird.
6. run most of what movies? I havent had any issues in that area, everything runs fine, and easier than getting most to work on my Linux boxes.
7. I have no idea what you mean by too many Windows themes and no defaults, really lost here. There is hardly anything you can change here.
8. What do you mean by stupid network chooser? I havent had any problems connecting easiliy to different and multiple networks. Unless you mean like browsing SMB shares in finder, or having to type an actual URL to connect to servers sometimes.
9. No decent cross platform office suite? what the heck do you want or use on Windows or Linux? I only use Openoffice on my macs.
10. I havent ever used iCal, dont know about that
11. I hate virtual desktops, as do many people i talk to. I hate how i have default ones always set up with most Linux distros, i always turn that junk off and have my 1 nice desktop.
12. I never heard of iTerm, but i use the standard Terminal.app . its fine for most basic to average needs, but needs some updating to more complicated things. You dont need a different terminal to do this, just some modification.
and yes i need more reasons why, because you havent given any yet.
he went from a celeron to an athlon 64, this means he also has a new motherboard and memory. thats the major parts of the computer.
Upgrading your motherboard with Windows, is just asking for problems. I've never tried actually upgrading a motherboard on OSX, as there really isnt upgrades to completely different versions and companies available.
Apple never sold a G4 that could keep up with a 2ghz Pentium-M . I'm guessing you mean the pentium-M as Centrino is not a processor, but a package. The current Centrino packages use Core Duos.
The G4s were being compared mostly to P4s, which are not nearly as efficent as Pentium-Ms
Not sure, but from what ive read, Apple is saving money by using Intel wireless cards in the new machines. This is why the cards physically supports 802.11a now, but OSX does not.
all current intel macs meet or surpass the minimum Vista requirements. The MacBook Pro, and the iMac should be able to run all the cool added visual affects, but its unknown if the GMA950 video in the mini can do this. But those options can be disabled and Vista still run.
i wouldnt say apple desired it, as they could have made it really easy. They purposefully left out backwards compatiblity in the EFI that Windows needs to run.
whats the big deal with this? the latest announced SLI chipsets that should be available soon from nVidia already say they support 4 video card SLI... wait til you can get a board soon with one of those newer nForce chipsets.
thats not really true, maybe you need to prove what your saying? You make no sense saying not to trust them, then posting a link to them about... what?
or your saying winehq is just lying and you know better?
it says by...
thats a blanket email sent to everyone that had ordered any config of macBook Pro
they will ship it by the 28th, which means anytime between now and the 28th
an Apple VP said they will start shipping the 2ghz model this week. If you changed stuff from stock on the 2ghz model, then it might be next week or more.
you will be able to dual boot...
Redhat has already said they will support running Redhat and Fedora on the new Intel Macs (eventually).
so you can dual boot right there.. OSX and Linux!
Cadega is decent for some things, but its not that great yet, and even some of their "supported" games run about 30% - 50% of the native speed it does in windows on the same hardware.
warranty and insurance is not the same thing.... though a few companies (Dell and HP) add a insurance like clause to certain warranty types that cost more.
see if lighting strikes a pole and the transformer falls on your new car ruining it, and see if the warranty coverage will fix it...
no you dont own the software. You own the physcial CD, sure, but not the software on it.
If you buy a book you do own the book, but thats the physical book, you do not own the words and sotry that make up the book.
If you want to buy and really own OSX, then see if apple will take a few billion for it.. they might want more like 100 billion.. or more... who knows.
Apple owns OSX and they license people to use it.
dupliction isnt stealing... really.. its not, but thats not exactly what is going on.
The are not selling you software, and you are not buying the software. Your paying for the right to use the software, and using it without paying for the license is stealing no matter how you got the software.
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while it would be nice, its not easy to do. The article is a bit misleading saying virtualiztion is better than emulation, since all virtualization software, even parallels, uses emulation as well. The video in the virtual machine does not use the systems video card at all. the video card Windows has acess to is a 100% emulated video card.
this has been an option in dockable Dells for like... 10 years?
not the same thing. We are talking about Core Duo chips here, not Dual Core. Yes Core Duo chips are Dual Core, Dual Core is not Core Duo. Core Duo is a brand name given to an exact architecture, it doesnt just mean dual core.
ok thats the longest post i ever made on slashdot, but why does it auto word wrap everything? what a peice of trash i had that all on seperate lines. Didn't know i had to write posts in HTML.... talk about crappy.
1. I love the dual monitor set up in OSX, not sure what your issues are unles soyur clicking through every single res possible and studing it for awhile or something back and forth, but thats kind of silly. 2. It has large amounts of memory reservered for many things, and looks like its using a lot. Its only slightly higher than my BSD or linux boxes. 3. Half a second delay on mouse events? sounds like you have something set up wrong, havent ever seen that. 4. I personally dont care about having a configurable WM. the Defaults are decent enough 5. I like Apple Mail much more than Thunderbird. 6. run most of what movies? I havent had any issues in that area, everything runs fine, and easier than getting most to work on my Linux boxes. 7. I have no idea what you mean by too many Windows themes and no defaults, really lost here. There is hardly anything you can change here. 8. What do you mean by stupid network chooser? I havent had any problems connecting easiliy to different and multiple networks. Unless you mean like browsing SMB shares in finder, or having to type an actual URL to connect to servers sometimes. 9. No decent cross platform office suite? what the heck do you want or use on Windows or Linux? I only use Openoffice on my macs. 10. I havent ever used iCal, dont know about that 11. I hate virtual desktops, as do many people i talk to. I hate how i have default ones always set up with most Linux distros, i always turn that junk off and have my 1 nice desktop. 12. I never heard of iTerm, but i use the standard Terminal.app . its fine for most basic to average needs, but needs some updating to more complicated things. You dont need a different terminal to do this, just some modification. and yes i need more reasons why, because you havent given any yet.
he went from a celeron to an athlon 64, this means he also has a new motherboard and memory. thats the major parts of the computer. Upgrading your motherboard with Windows, is just asking for problems. I've never tried actually upgrading a motherboard on OSX, as there really isnt upgrades to completely different versions and companies available.
Apple never sold a G4 that could keep up with a 2ghz Pentium-M . I'm guessing you mean the pentium-M as Centrino is not a processor, but a package. The current Centrino packages use Core Duos.
The G4s were being compared mostly to P4s, which are not nearly as efficent as Pentium-Ms
it hasnt been delayed again yet... not offcially. But whats one more dleay in the long line of delays as it is?
Not sure, but from what ive read, Apple is saving money by using Intel wireless cards in the new machines. This is why the cards physically supports 802.11a now, but OSX does not.
all current intel macs meet or surpass the minimum Vista requirements. The MacBook Pro, and the iMac should be able to run all the cool added visual affects, but its unknown if the GMA950 video in the mini can do this. But those options can be disabled and Vista still run.
not yet... until photoshop is native... right now with this you can compare a native windos version, to an emulated processor version...
i wouldnt say apple desired it, as they could have made it really easy. They purposefully left out backwards compatiblity in the EFI that Windows needs to run.
whats the big deal with this? the latest announced SLI chipsets that should be available soon from nVidia already say they support 4 video card SLI... wait til you can get a board soon with one of those newer nForce chipsets.
lets see, paint.net doesnt do as much as GIMP... GIMP runs on more than just Windows... and they BOTH are free downloads...
hmmm..... let me think...
thats not really true, maybe you need to prove what your saying? You make no sense saying not to trust them, then posting a link to them about... what?
or your saying winehq is just lying and you know better?
http://www.winehq.org/site/myths
Core Duo is an actual product, it doesnt just mean dual core.
The Pentium-D is a crappy thrown together dual core P4, not close to the same thing.
it says by... thats a blanket email sent to everyone that had ordered any config of macBook Pro they will ship it by the 28th, which means anytime between now and the 28th an Apple VP said they will start shipping the 2ghz model this week. If you changed stuff from stock on the 2ghz model, then it might be next week or more.
you will be able to dual boot... Redhat has already said they will support running Redhat and Fedora on the new Intel Macs (eventually). so you can dual boot right there.. OSX and Linux!
Cadega is decent for some things, but its not that great yet, and even some of their "supported" games run about 30% - 50% of the native speed it does in windows on the same hardware.
warranty and insurance is not the same thing.... though a few companies (Dell and HP) add a insurance like clause to certain warranty types that cost more. see if lighting strikes a pole and the transformer falls on your new car ruining it, and see if the warranty coverage will fix it...
no you dont own the software. You own the physcial CD, sure, but not the software on it. If you buy a book you do own the book, but thats the physical book, you do not own the words and sotry that make up the book. If you want to buy and really own OSX, then see if apple will take a few billion for it.. they might want more like 100 billion.. or more... who knows. Apple owns OSX and they license people to use it.
dupliction isnt stealing... really.. its not, but thats not exactly what is going on.
The are not selling you software, and you are not buying the software. Your paying for the right to use the software, and using it without paying for the license is stealing no matter how you got the software.
in 3 to 5 years they will most likely be so slow at a new app, that who cares if it runs or not, get a new machine.
the whole 6 games thing again?
yeah.. Macs need 500,000 different games to make a gamer happy... intead of just the few thousand there are.
if they came up with viable plan that was acceptable to the Dems, then why would they need alternatives?