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  • Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker I would love OpenOffice.org if it were, in any form whatsoever, a creative programming project. Sadly, it is little but a clone of the "I hate Microsoft"/"I am too cheap to buy an Office license"/"Open source is…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Gene Clean This is not a hack. This is the OpenOffice team working on a native version of OpenOffice for OS X. It's far from being done, but people are investing their time and effort to provide something to OS X free o…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Kuku This also becomes an issue becasue of teir pricing. It's lke the whole home/pro/mce thing amplified. People bundling different version of vista, via OEM is going to be in a whole screwly senerio, of not knowing …
  • I hated OS 8, I became a Windows user for 5 years because of it. Then once I got sick of Windows, I started looking for alternatives and I started messing with different distrobution of Linux like Debian, Slax, Slackware, Fedora, Red Hat, DSL, etc. …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by T'hain Esh Kelch Gonna be interesting to see which one is the fastest and most stable - This hack or NeoOffice with a native GUI. I always found NeoOffice ungodly slow, i hated it. It was a HUGE install and it took f…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Placebo So it boils down to not wanting to see a hard drive icon on your desktop? Well, for the record, the Mac OS X partition, unless you install some 3rd party software, won't appear on your Windows desktop. On the Ma…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker I cannot see the point of this. 20 will definitely be enough for Office and Visual Studio. It should be at least 10. Ok I just like things simple, it might not be the most logical way, but to me its …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by ZachPruckowski If I were you, I'd get more RAM and just use Paralells. It's more expensive, but saves a reboot. It'll be great if all you use is Office and Visual Studio. And for a laptop in college, a reboot is a pa…
  • I really think I will like this remote . . .
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker Let's try posting once more. I can see where you're coming from, but you're sacrificing a lot of optimization by storing your data on FAT32. Instead, I would recommend buying an HFS+ driver for Windows, s…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Placebo I meant, make the Windows partition as small as you can get away with, format it as FAT, and then if you need a file that's over on Windows you can get it easily, while having even more HFS+ storage. Maybe if…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Placebo That sounds like a great idea. You could skip one step and just format your Windows partition as FAT, enabling you to pull files over in Mac OS X. See I thought about that and I do not want to have to go find…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by DrBoar 128 MB is to little I had a B&W G3/350 and then OS X was terribel with 128 MB RAM, even just 192 was a big improvement, more is better OK how to make that machine better PowerForce G3 upgrades speed fro…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM As an upgrade for existing computers, Vista can generally be avoided. I think the way most buyers will switch to Vista when the computer they have is old enough to not do what they want anymore, and just buy a n…
  • http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Trip...t_via_BootCamp I have read it, but I have not tried it yet, as I do not have an intel mac yet. -iGrant
  • Quote: Originally Posted by ZachPruckowski So I have one of those x1900xt Mac Pros backordered, and since there are rumors that we may see them in the next two weeks or so (instead of my current Sept 21st ship date), I thought I ought to get on bu…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by bdkennedy1 Why does anyone care on a Mac site? Because alot of use have to use Windows even thought we are Mac users. I am a college student, yet I am about to buy a MacBook so I can install Windows so that I can do …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by kim kap sol I know someone's gonna bring up the ol' "but Apple has charged $129 for five updates for a grand total of $645 which is much more than Vista's Ultimate Edition"... ...but...here's the difference between A…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Engine Joe Exactly. Thus my question - which dollars are quoted here - USD or CAD? If they're in CAD, then we need to adjust the numbers to make a more fair comparison to Apple's prices. Even after you adjust the p…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by malckwan What exactly accounts for the differences in the versions of Vista, and for that matter XP Home and Pro? Does micro$oft hobble the lower end versions of its OS? Are there fewer "features" or just more bug…