Whaaa?? If you Mac Mini is not booting from the correct Startup disk, you have
a corrupted system. That is not an "Reliability" issue. I've been using Macs
since their inception, and have never had an issue with dual booting systems
(once they were supported). In fact Macs had the ability to
Paul:
> problems switching between boot partitions where
> the Mini would forget what Startup disk it should boot from.
I like the concept of multi-boot, but never use it.
Neither Windows nor Mac seems reliable enough for that.
(I had a couple bad experiences early on that weaned me off it.)
That involves quite a capital outlay, and as long as you can justify
that in terms of business and
remuneration, super.
I am not so set up, either business wise or in any other way.
What I DO know is that the "Mac world" post MacOS 9 seems to fracture
along several lines:
PPC (probably not
Hi Paul,
Several years ago - 6-8-10 years ago? Not sure when - I left VMs behind
in favor of minimally-configured actual hardware. I have a couple of
Windows laptops but almost never use them now. My main development world
consists of 4 Mac minis of various ages (all Intel or M1) and a couple
A problem I have struggled with for decades is software testing on the
various versions of operating systems our software deploys on.
For testing on Windows, we use Virtualbox with Virtual Machines (VMs)
for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 (we have yet to try to build
a Windows 11 VM)
