Hi all,
Question in the local paper regarding the new feature on the INTEL Apple m/cs:
“Will the people running OS X and Win on the same machine be subjected to the morass that comes with Windows?”
Hmmmmmmmmm would one call that Wintel’s revenge???
From what I’ve read, they would be, but only when running under Windoze. When rebooted under Mac OS, they’d be back to their good old selves. The questionable area comes if a virus eats through the partitions on your hard drive so you can’t boot from either partition. Of course, running Windoze on a Mac is akin to putting a Chevy engine in a Ford. (To use a metaphor TOC would appreciate.)
It may be “wintel’s revenge,” but, like Montezuma’s, so long as you don’t drink the water, you’ll be okay. 
Later,
K
Kevin,
Way back when I was considering getting my first 'puter ('92), I had an in-house intro to Apple.
But back then the premium on an Apple was considerable enough to buy a cloned Wintel machine.
And dabbling in OS2 (93/94) was lots of fun but if you can’t get drivers for the hardware it’s “game over”. At present I have Linux on one dual-boot machine to dabble when I find time.
For the sake of the dual-booting Win/OSX crowd I hope that they are smart and have separate drives, not just separate partitions. OTOH not for me to worry. 
No argument from me on the price of Macs. Our first Mac ran us upwards of $6K, and that was the “student” price. They’re still “premium” prices, but when you trick a PC out to the same performance level of a Mac, the price difference becomes significantly less.
Alas, the three machines with the MacTel chip right now don’t have room for separate drives, so it would have to be partitioned. When they put the MacTel in a tower, then you’d have that option. 'course, anyone who wants to put Windoze on a Mac gets what they deserve, anyway…
Later,
K
Well, now that Macs have Intel x86 processors, the difference in performance is really the operating system.
Since the mac OS is unix-based, I look at Macs as “pretty” PC’s, with a button missing on the mouse.
Take your PC, put Linux on it, and compare it’s performance to a mac, pretty much identical.
The finall blurring of the line between pc’s and macs is when the popular graphics packages become available under linux and Xwindows.
Regards, Greg
Greg Elmassian said:
Well, now that Macs have Intel x86 processors, the difference in performance is really the operating system.Since the mac OS is unix-based, I look at Macs as “pretty” PC’s, with a button missing on the mouse.
Take your PC, put Linux on it, and compare it’s performance to a mac, pretty much identical.
The finall blurring of the line between pc’s and macs is when the popular graphics packages become available under linux and Xwindows.
Regards, Greg
In my work lately, Ive had the opportunity to work on G5 Macs, and various Linux boxes, as well as Windows. While Windows is definately easier to develop for, since the tools are more ‘mature’, the Mac is a close second, and Linux not far behind that. The Mac and Linux boxes are definately faster doing the same task, and they dont fail as often when Im developing things like device drivers, which will quickly hose a windows box.
my 2c.
Absolutely, complete agree. They are both running unix/linux, a smaller, more bug free, less bloated operating system.
Regards, Greg