Not to mention "installing" software on the Mac =

usually means drag and drop (or just download and =

go) vs running an installer that sticks hundreds =

of DLLs and other files who knows where. Likewise =

uninstalling means dragging the app into the =

trash.

I use Parallels to run Win2k for any windows-only =

software (such as EDA). And I certainly don't run =

an email client under the virtual windows, and a =

web browser only when absolutely necessary. It's =

just too dangerous ;-)


>Bill,
>
>As far as discovering things I found that windows takes about 3 minutes to
>boot completely using quad xeon processor 4 gig ram and mac takes 20 secon=
ds
>and every things ready to use. I noticed more software installed longer
>takes to boot "windows" but mac has no effect at all.
>
>Thanks
>
>Andre=A0=A0
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
>William "Chops" Westfield
>Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 8:53 PM
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: Re: [OT]: Leopard vs XP
>
>
>On Feb 2, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Matt Pobursky wrote:
>
>>  It could, but I'll probably be dust before Apple would ever let that
>>  happen. Oh, we can only dream... [MACOSX running on commodity HW.]
>>
>>  It would certainly make the OS landscape much more interesting if=A0
>>  it ever
>>  came to pass. I could see Microsoft losing a significant market=A0
>>  share in a
>>  short time.
>
>I suspect that you would discover in short order why windows is so=A0
>popular with HW vendors; there's a hell of a lot it does "invisibly"=A0
>to support a huge range of third-party stuff that macos would=A0
>probably just choke on.
>
>BillW


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