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Re: I need windows, but don't want it!

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From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:20
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Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-03-18, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote:
> 
>> So, given that the two apps I need are graphics intensive --
>> Corel draw and a flight sim - tell me which is better
>>
>> An Intel Mac
>> Linux.
> 
> The question makes no sense.  It's like asking which is better,
> AMD-X2 or Windows-2000?  One is a hardware platform, the other
> is an OS.
> 
AS far as I know an Intel Mac,which will run windows, will only do so on 
an OSX 10.4 or 5 platform

So th comparison is between OSX or Linux.

But I assumed anyone who had anything worth while to say, would know that.

I guess I wes right, at that ;-)


>> And should I attempt to run in parallel or just boot bloody
>> windows when needed?
> 
> Dunno.  It depends on your needs.
> 
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