Just to clear a few things up.
With boot camp your second op is not running in virtual mode. It is
running under full system resources. So on the new mac's it would be
like a regular pc.
Now if you want the best of both worlds and ops. You can run them
together with the second op in the virtual world with either fusion
or virtual box. That lets them run side by side sharing resources.
Now we also have a third option with peroral for mac. it lets you
install and run the pc software under the mac op. The only bust here
is not all software will run that way but a lot will.
With this new mac op you can even install it on a pc. They call them
hackintoshes.
At 04:39 AM 1/3/2010, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
These days with software like Boot Camp that's not altogether true.
There are ways of having the best of both worlds. It is just that
many Windows users don't know about them so they are afraid to
invest in a Mac or Linux system believing as you do that they have
to give up all their Windows games and favorite applications to go
Mac or Linux. While it is certainly true the majority of software is
specifically designed for Windows with the availability of virtual
machines that is more an annoyance than a serious problem for a Mac
or Linux user.
For example, if you were to purchase a brand new Intel based MacBook
with Mac OS 10.6you would get the standard Mac OS operating system
complete with the VoiceOver screen reader, ITunes media player,
Safari web browser, and all the rest of the common Mac applications.
If you then wanted your Windows applications you can install Windows
XP on that machine via Boot Camp and run Windows XP as a virtual
machine. That way you can keep all your games, and other important
Windows software too. Running Windows under a virtual machine is a
tad bit slower than running it natively of course, but it is the
best solution available to us currently. The upside though is you
can still use Mac OS as your primary operating system and boot into
Windows to access stuff you would otherwise not be able to use.
With Linux these days there are multiple solutions to choose from. If
you wanted to try out the base operating system without formatting
your hard drive you can run Ubuntu Linux directly off the cd. It
runs slower, but it does allow someone to run Linux without making
any changes to Windows. Other solutions involve installing it to a
USB thumb drive and booting from that, or you can just stick the
Ubuntu cd in your computer and do a quick and easy multiboot setup
from Windows directly. You can use a third-party solution such as VM
Ware which allows you to install Windows as a virtual machine under
Linux. Either way you decide to do it you can easily run both while
not giving up anything in the process. Bottom line, there are ways
to run Windows along side your operating system of choice to have
the best of both worlds. It need not be a one or the other situation.
Cheers!
shaun everiss wrote:
hmmm i would, but since most stuff is windows based I can't.
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