From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Friday, 19 December 2008 12:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?
The fact that I can run Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Illustrator at the same time makes ME feel like it's more optimized. I can also run Firefox with 15-20 tabs open at all times, plus my mail client, my FTP client, some utility apps, a chat program, etc. All at the same time. Never even a slight hesitation in performance of any kind. I can barely run DW and PS together on my PC. Then I think there is something wrong with your PC, if there's such a difference between the two. I have Photoshop open right now on my PC (just a coincidence) and a bunch of other apps (it's a Dell XPS 420) and I don't have any problems. What is stopping you running these two apps on your PC? Disk I/O? CPU? Running out of RAM? I'm trying to get some *facts* here. We're supposed to be relatively scientific people. We should be approaching these things trying to determine root cause. We don't buy networking gear from Vendor X because it seems you can run a web browser and FTP client at the same time, but if you buy from Vendor Y you're struggling to download two webpages at the same time. I LIKE PCs. Like the majority of us here, I make my money ON and WITH PCs. For my network administration stuff, I use an IBM ThinkPad running Vista. I even defend Vista. I don't have a fraction of the problems the masses like to report. It's a decent OS, in MY opinion. BUT, I enjoy the Mac experience a great deal more. Physics aside, yes, I do think the Mac "moves 1s and 0s" around faster. If you want me to say it, I'll say it. I PREFER the Mac experience to my Windows experience because of it's performance. And the question here is /why/ is your Mac performance so strikingly different? How is my defense of Macs, saying their optimized, less accurate than the statement that they're simply generic white boxes? I'm not claiming they are generic white boxes. I'm saying that the design, and the hardware testing that goes into them is no different to what you can get from other brands (Dell, HP, IBM etc). Someone else made the claim about "white boxes". And I didn't realize Mac was the only OS burdened with updates. I could have sworn I've had to run updates on my PC once or twice in the past. No, the "off the cuff" remark I was making was about the *size* of the patches. Seems every app patch is almost a complete reinstallation of the app. A lot seem to be in the 50-100MB size. I didn't want to make a big deal about it - it was just humour on the side. Cheers Ken ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
