Damn, out of popcorn. Hang on while I run to the kitchen. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Maas <a...@mawz.ca> Sender: pdml-boun...@pdml.net Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 16:47:22 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<pdml@pdml.net> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: OT PC thingies
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:12 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > On 2010-09-05 10:56 , Adam Maas wrote: >> >> I'm talking Dell, HP, Toshiba and Lenovo here. Similar quality >> components, sometimes better (HP for example uses Asus MB's on their >> desktops, better quality boards than the Mac desktop boards aside from >> the Mac Pro's). The components used in the non-Pro Mac's are nothing >> special and some parts (desktop PSU's in particular) are inferior to >> the standardized designs used in the PC world. > > avoiding the general point, some high points on Mac components are batteries > in current MacBooks and MacBooks Pro, and displays on current iMacs; also > worth mentioning that the current Mini has an extremely low power draw Actually, the Batteries are a current low point. Good life at the cost of a shop-run to replace. The iMac displays are good. The Mini's power draw is nothing special, any laptop-based SFF PC will have similar draw (that's how the Mini achieves it) and the Mini gives up a LOT of performance to get the low power draw. Most SFF PC's are based on desktop hardware and have significantly greater performance, especially in terms of video and HDD performance. > > >> Note Macs are poor hosts for OS's other than OS X or >> >> Windows as well > > how so? do you mean that virtualized OSs run more slowly, or what? i > certainly get what i need running Win2000, XP & 7 plus various Ubuntu and > CentOS VMs, so for my modest purposes i don't understand what you might mean > by "poor host" > Virtualization is fine, booting natively not so much and getting those OS's to boot on EFI-based systems can be a real pain. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.