On Saturday 28 February 2009 08:36:51 am Paul McNett wrote:
> johnf wrote:
> > On Friday 27 February 2009 06:05:02 pm Dan Means wrote:
> >> Now - to be controversial -- I know the pundits all say "mac for
> >> ordinary folks, windows for business" -- but I can do a lot more for a
> >> lot less $$ these days on any halfway decent box with Ubuntu - and you
> >> can even make the Ubuntu box look remarkably like a Mac with
> >> Compiz....even add a launcher bar etc......
> >
> > Shhhhhhh:--  Don't tell others it might start a resession.
>
> I definitely don't need Darwin or the beautiful user interface. The reasons
> I use MacBooks are:
>
> 1) to have a mac to test my app on
>
> 2) I can trust the hardware to be of a certain quality and reliability
> (power consumption, weight, wifi, sound, display...)
>
> 3) good enough platform for running VM's of Windows and Ubuntu
>
> I spend 90% of my day in my Ubuntu VM.
>
> Paul

This is a real question.  I have been told that running VM's under Os X is not 
very fast.  So how's your performance?  And what about binaries for Linux are 
they easy to install?



-- 
John Fabiani

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