Comments on: Why run OS X and Windows XP on an Intel Mac

By: pepangelist

pepangelist — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:31:02 +0000

Video chatting with Windows Live MSN

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:46:06 +0000

For being a new convert to mac…..i have apps that are platform specific that would be very expensive to buy again in os x version…..like Photoshop etc….I must say after having used Bootcamp on my MBP Photoshop runs better than it did on my Win laptop….thought to be fair my MBP is quite a bit better in terms of hardware……that said I am satisfied enough with performance not to want to buy another copy of Photoshop….plus with the win partition in FAT 32 i can easily grab my files into OSX….other than a few apps I am always in OS X which I really like. So to end for those of us who have been win users for years and have apps that we don’t want to buy again being able to have both os’s on one platform is very beneficial and functional. Thanks Apple!

By: mattcintosh

mattcintosh — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:09:54 +0000

I think it would be a great marketing idea. Apple could just sell their machine with either MacOSX or Windows or Both. Someone who doesn’t want to switch to OSX but likes Mac hardware could just get a XP version of the Mac hardware.

By: cajunerd

cajunerd — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:47:42 +0000

Choice is freedom. Why would anyone object to giving users another option? If you don’t want to run Windows on a MacBook, then don’t. If you do, great.. wish us both luck!

I’ve been looking for a laptop that’s better looking than my Vaio and also more powerful. MacBook fits the bill. Windows XP/2k3 and OS X are all wonderful OSes and I really look forward to the day that I can use my preferred OS on slick Mac hardware.

Here’s to choice!

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:47:06 +0000

Lets add Visio and MS Publisher….

By: xong

xong — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:36:21 +0000

Counter-Strike is the reason. There’s no port of Havok for MacOS, therefore, there is no Half-Life for MacOS….:/
Worse than that, there’s no effort to bring Havok for MacOS…so titles depending on it, will never reach MacOS platform…sadly

By: Ziger

Ziger — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:35:47 +0000

Here is one, I need a windows machine to boot inside the four walls of most of my clients offices. Often I have to join their messy domains and let them make a hash of the machine itself. I have a choice - dual boot and carry a spare harddrive and live in WinDoz or carry two bleeping machines like I do now.

Which one sounds easier to carry?

Zig.

By: orion

orion — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:04:41 +0000

That��s right superman!
Currently I��m developing .NET apps and I kind of really need Visual Studio 2005. At the same time I want to have this MacBook and use OS X. don��t ask why, I just want it

By: superman

superman — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:01:49 +0000

run VS.net/code C# on a mac !

By: malevolentjelly

malevolentjelly — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:19:12 +0000

I’ve successfully run many Windows Systems without spyware or adware support. The primary security issue has always been Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. I would say most of the major security issues have been solved since Windows 2000, and that MS has gelled their OS since XP SP2. The weakest times for windows was pre-2000… when you could run mac and enjoy all the joy of 1980’s computing:

-dismal memory “management”
-awful software support (no unix core yet!)
-non pre-emptive computing

Acting like Windows is still as crappy as Windows 98 is like acting like Mac OS X is an upgrade of OS 9.

Most of the stability OS X offers is merely an effect of the incredible lack of hardware support. If Windows only supported a handful of machines, in total, it would probably run circles around OS X in terms of stability.

–That’s not to mention the incredibly irresponsible behavior of Apple in the way of leaving the last “major” version change incompatible with future software on an almost yearly basis. I’d say you save a lot of money just running a generation of Windows and enjoying about 5 years of direct upgrade support, then a whole computing generation of basic software support.

This idea that Microsoft is robbing OS X is hardly relevant, the OS X gui is very intuitive, but it’s really standing on the shoulders of NeXT — i mean, that’s the OpenStep interface, to a hair, with guifications. And they actually had NeXT’s code to work with, whereas Microsoft is only adapting concepts. I think the “stealing directly” statement is a little mislead.

The only company out there with worse business practices than Microsoft is Apple. If you are trying to make a statement, run Linux.