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 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
