MAC vs. PC or how about both?

nomav6 · 08-13-2004, 03:04 PM

theres a lot of fights over mac and pc, but in everyone of the fights both sides always has something positive to say about both of them, so why dont get both of them? it cost to much to buy both a pc and a mac! well I just found this link, haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but trust me I will be soon.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7085

Lorand · 08-13-2004, 04:57 PM

Interesting news. But I will never ever install MacOS on my computer. I hate Macs. And Macs hate me: every time I work on a Mac, it crashes at least once per hour.
So we are not ment for each other...

nomav6 · 08-13-2004, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Lorand

every time I work on a Mac, it crashes at least once per hour.

Probably a good Ideal that you dont use it then, because its going to be sharing half of the resources with what ever OS that your running on the pc. As for me only thing I hate about macs is the overpricing of hardware, so this will be fun to play around with.

**Praetor** · 08-13-2004, 10:56 PM

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Probably a good Ideal that you dont use it then, because its going to be sharing half of the resources with what ever OS that your running on the pc.

The only resource they'd be sharing live is the HDD space right? (ill have another read at that again)

Lorand · 08-13-2004, 11:13 PM

The MacOS is running in emulation mode on a PC, so the emulator uses half of the processor time.
And believe me, it doesn't worth it. MacOS is much worse than Windows. Unfortunately I need to work on Macs and they really suck. I work on the same programs as in PC, but Windows is far more ergonomic than MacOS.
I have a cordless optical mouse and when the batteries are out (usually this happens after midnight

), I can continue my work for hours. But if you're a Mac user and the mouse stopped working then you're out of business.

**Praetor** · 08-13-2004, 11:16 PM

Ah wtf ... both OSes are running concurrently? Bad design tsk tsk! (whoever came up with that bright idea needs to take CS350 again

)

jesbax · 09-14-2004, 12:11 AM

The best way to run mac and windows is to get a mac and a pc emulation software. The
other way is a dos card for the make. It shares everything but the cpu and memory. The dos card has them on it all ready.
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**Praetor** · 09-14-2004, 03:35 PM

The idea is to run Mac and PC -- not Mac and Windows .... i wouldnt imagine that the setup you've described wouldnt be able to fire up linux would it?

jesbax · 09-15-2004, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Praetor

The idea is to run Mac and PC -- not Mac and Windows .... i wouldnt imagine that the setup you've described wouldnt be able to fire up linux would it?

Yes linux will run on mac with out any software or hardware modifcations. Linux has all the software to run on mac without a problem. The way i found out about it was i was in college when my buddy and i up linux on old mac and then put it on a network. That was 7 years a go.

**Praetor** · 09-16-2004, 03:00 PM

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Yes linux will run on mac

Note that Linux and Windows are not all the OSes for PC platforms. There are also the IX family

Emulation is only a temporary fix ... never a complete solution course this is getting really nitty gritty

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08-13-2004, 04:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 41 Posts: 3,042	Interesting news. But I will never ever install MacOS on my computer. I hate Macs. And Macs hate me: every time I work on a Mac, it crashes at least once per hour. So we are not ment for each other...

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Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 41 Posts: 3,042	The MacOS is running in emulation mode on a PC, so the emulator uses half of the processor time. And believe me, it doesn't worth it. MacOS is much worse than Windows. Unfortunately I need to work on Macs and they really suck. I work on the same programs as in PC, but Windows is far more ergonomic than MacOS. I have a cordless optical mouse and when the batteries are out (usually this happens after midnight ), I can continue my work for hours. But if you're a Mac user and the mouse stopped working then you're out of business.

09-14-2004, 12:11 AM	#7 (permalink)
jesbax Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: NE Age: 28 Posts: 337	The best way to run mac and windows is to get a mac and a pc emulation software. The other way is a dos card for the make. It shares everything but the cpu and memory. The dos card has them on it all ready. __________________________ Windows XP SP2 Celeron 2.00 GHz 768 MB Kingston 100 GB Maxon HD 16x DVD-ROM 52x32x52x CD-RW NVIDIA GeForce2 MX NVIDIA RIVA TNT Model 64/Model 64 Pro RAGE 128 GL AGP