Should have included having all three in the house. Macs are for everyday, use by all. Windows are for connecting to work networks and using several work programs. One for linux because we like to keep up with what is out there.
Right now I'm using a piece-of-crap Compaq laptop until I get my new equipment. This was going to be a Mac laptop and a PC desktop, but with Boot Camp, I'm considering to just get the Mac desktop and it'll serve all of my needs.
I really hope they don't discontinue Boot Camp when Leopard comes out in lieu of some kind of integrated VMware-style software. I want my Windows stuff to be a good sixty seconds away from my Mac stuff, for security reasons and because games will only run well when Windows is the only OS running.
Also, I hope they allow us to use the standard PC drivers for their graphics cards instead of something funky they cook up. BTW, any ideas of how, if at all, Intel Mac GPUs differ from the PC ones?
I have too many computers. At home I have no real need for Windows, nor do I really anywhere, but my company bought me a windows PC, and what are ya gonna do...
How does this work. . . I have an iMac G5, a PB Ti 1GHz, a 7500-based frankenmac (arguably, the most frankensteinian of all frankenmacs), and a Powerbook 180c. The frankenmac used to be my System 9 PPC mac, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it now that the powerbook has taken that role. The 180c is my 68k System 7.1 mac. Every now at then there's some ancient file or whatever, and it's good to have the 68k mac. It's especially good for playing really old mac games.
At the office I also have an HP 3.4GHz P4 lapyacht that runs windows XP, as well as an Athlon 2000 tower with Linux on it. There are also dozens of ARM based computers around the office that run Linux.
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I really hope they don't discontinue Boot Camp when Leopard comes out in lieu of some kind of integrated VMware-style software. I want my Windows stuff to be a good sixty seconds away from my Mac stuff, for security reasons and because games will only run well when Windows is the only OS running.
Also, I hope they allow us to use the standard PC drivers for their graphics cards instead of something funky they cook up. BTW, any ideas of how, if at all, Intel Mac GPUs differ from the PC ones?
Originally posted by Placebo
...BTW, any ideas of how, if at all, Intel Mac GPUs differ from the PC ones?
I think the only difference is the firmware, but im not 100% on that.
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How does this work. . . I have an iMac G5, a PB Ti 1GHz, a 7500-based frankenmac (arguably, the most frankensteinian of all frankenmacs), and a Powerbook 180c. The frankenmac used to be my System 9 PPC mac, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it now that the powerbook has taken that role. The 180c is my 68k System 7.1 mac. Every now at then there's some ancient file or whatever, and it's good to have the 68k mac. It's especially good for playing really old mac games.
At the office I also have an HP 3.4GHz P4 lapyacht that runs windows XP, as well as an Athlon 2000 tower with Linux on it. There are also dozens of ARM based computers around the office that run Linux.