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

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From: Grant Edwards
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:02

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On 2009-03-18, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote:
> 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

Sorry, that statement doesn't make much sense either.

You can also run Linux, or BSD on an Intel Mac, and I don't see
what the OS-X version has to do with whether or not a
particular hardware platoform can run Windows.

> So th comparison is between OSX or Linux.

That's not what you asked.  You asked about Intel Mac vs.
Linux.

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