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#1
dumbass - Posted 3:12 pm PDT 06/5/09 (447 Posts)
Windoze is bug ridden, crashes every 5 minutes and is full of viruses.
Just looking to save some time here...
#2
nahcyrag - Posted 3:16 pm PDT 06/5/09 (221 Posts)
Windows is a very stable system by itself. It's third party softwares including virus, spywares that made it unstable.
#3
dhho1 - Posted 3:32 pm PDT 06/5/09 (1830 Posts)
#4
javadca20 - Posted 3:37 pm PDT 06/5/09 (65 Posts)
#1 I actaully thought the same thing untill I bought a macbook last month. It's ridiculously fast, stable, and the OS is amazingly easy and reliable. I have Vista on one partition and OSX on the other one. They both work flawlessly. I play a ton of games on the Vista side and they play great! I will never buy another PC. The features and quality are just ridiculous, built in camera, bluetooth and no many more...great! Get the unibody though...the white plastic ones are crappy and crack.
#5
soundmanbrad - Posted 3:45 pm PDT 06/5/09 (11 Posts)
What games are you able to play on these? Can you play games like left for dead and fallout 3?
#6
slug - Posted 3:49 pm PDT 06/5/09 (59 Posts)
#3, just buy VMWare's Fusion and forget dual boot as Fusion can have both running at the same time.
#7
mdheinzer - Posted 5:29 pm PDT 06/5/09 (576 Posts)
#3 can you read? there is a ton of information on the web about how to dual boot these. I believe apple even points you in the right direction.
Just remember osx can read windows files but windows cannot read osx files.
Just remember osx can read windows files but windows cannot read osx files.
#8
LJW - Posted 5:38 pm PDT 06/5/09 (1013 Posts)
Totally agree about the dual boot -- the feature is called Boot Camp and comes bundled with Leopard http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html
A wizard will help you repartition your drive and install Windows, it's very easy.
However, using a virtual machine such as VMWare Fusion, Parallels or the less well-known but FREE VirtualBox from Sun http://www.virtualbox.org/ is much more convenient and works in a majority of situations -- except for games, where you want to use the native hardware for maximum performance in which case you want to use BootCamp (and stay away from the MacBook, especially the white and black ones, because of their less-capable video hardware)
A wizard will help you repartition your drive and install Windows, it's very easy.
However, using a virtual machine such as VMWare Fusion, Parallels or the less well-known but FREE VirtualBox from Sun http://www.virtualbox.org/ is much more convenient and works in a majority of situations -- except for games, where you want to use the native hardware for maximum performance in which case you want to use BootCamp (and stay away from the MacBook, especially the white and black ones, because of their less-capable video hardware)
#9
LiveSquid - Posted 6:19 pm PDT 06/5/09 (1979 Posts)
And no, Im not a mac fanboy. I dont even own a mac.
#10
DaShocKer - Posted 6:40 pm PDT 06/5/09 (110 Posts)
#11
dumbass - Posted 6:49 pm PDT 06/5/09 (447 Posts)
#12
tiburoncito2000 - Posted 8:04 pm PDT 06/5/09 (1347 Posts)
By the way the white iBooks suck big donkey "d" nothing but a piece of junk. Yes, I own one....
#13
Mistrblank - Posted 8:50 am PDT 06/6/09 (86 Posts)
I logged in to correct Ben, but #10 is right. Apparently apple silently upgraded the lowest end Macbooks so that they now come with the upgraded (but still onboard) Geforce boards.
I still think the Aluminum body is a better deal, I've had a lot of case issues with my all plastic first gen macbook, from Yellowing of the white to cracked plastic parts.
I still think the Aluminum body is a better deal, I've had a lot of case issues with my all plastic first gen macbook, from Yellowing of the white to cracked plastic parts.
#14
Mistrblank - Posted 8:52 am PDT 06/6/09 (86 Posts)
It should be noted too that the "low end" plastic macbook actually contains a faster processor now than the cheapest aluminum body macbook. It could easily be said you're paying $300-350 more for that aluminum shell.
Maybe I'm wrong and it isn't a better deal then.
Maybe I'm wrong and it isn't a better deal then.
#15
ruffjustice - Posted 10:12 am PDT 06/6/09 (358 Posts)
#16
booondocksaint - Posted 1:46 pm PDT 06/6/09 (72 Posts)
#17
nedflanders - Posted 7:07 pm PDT 06/6/09 (193 Posts)
Through the second half of the 1980s, the company built market share only to see it dissipate in the 1990s as the personal computer market shifted towards IBM PC compatible machines running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Apple consolidated multiple consumer-level desktop models into the 1998 iMac all-in-one, which was a sales success and saw the Macintosh brand revitalized. Current Mac systems are mainly targeted at the home, education, and creative professional markets. They are: the aforementioned (though upgraded) iMac and the entry-level Mac mini desktop models, the workstation-level Mac Pro tower, the MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, and the Xserve server.
Production of the Mac is based on a vertical integration model in that Apple facilitates all aspects of its hardware and creates its own operating system that is pre-installed on all Mac computers. This is in contrast to most IBM PC compatibles, where multiple sellers create hardware intended to run another company's software. Apple exclusively produces Mac hardware, choosing internal systems, designs, and prices. Apple does use third party components, however; current Mac CPUs use Intel's x86 architecture. Previous models used the AIM alliance's PowerPC and early models used Motorola's 68k. Apple also develops the operating system for the Mac, currently Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard". The modern Mac, like other personal computers, is capable of running alternative operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, and Microsoft Windows, though other computers cannot normally run Mac OS X.






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