Yes, you do need to factor in the cost of the OS. I have an official
version of Windows XP, I haven't heard much good about Vista. I
believe it costs something like $150 when buying separate. It's not
exactly free when buying a PC either, of course. Yes, they do try to
limit using it on only one computer.
Cost-of-ownership is different for everyone of course, but despite
Linux being free it never seemed worth it to me.
Mark
On 8-apr-08, at 12:00, Don Dailey wrote:
Mark Boon wrote:
On 8-apr-08, at 08:50, steve uurtamo wrote:
There's another way, and it's not too bad, depending upon how
often you want to switch operating systems.
Get a second drive.
Oh, that is so passé! ;-)
I gladly pay $80 for VMWare Fusion and can use whatever OS pleases me
at the same time as Mac OS. The windows can even interact with
copy-paste and drag-and-drop. I just haven't found a reason yet why
I'd install Linux or FreeBSD. Who knows someone will write a Go
program that only runs in Linux that I'd like to have?
If you have Mac OS you already have a reasonable OS so there is no
reason to go to Linux.
But how do you get Windows on VMWare? Do you use an illegal copy or
do you buy a new copy of Windows for installation?
How much does it cost for Vista if I were to go to the store to buy a
"legal" copy? I would never do that unless my job or some other
compelling reason required this, but just to put things into
perspective, how much would it cost?
I don't have a problem with paying for VMWare, and there are other
simulators too that are open source) and I would even put Windows
on it
for those rare occasions when I could use windows, but not if I
have to
support MS to do it. I'm pretty sure Windows forbids you run a
payed
for copy of their OS on more than 1 computer at a time without
paying them.
Years ago I used VMWare at my job and it worked fine but it's still
not
quite the same as running a dedicated OS. But I hear it's not bad
these days.
- Don
Mark
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