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

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From: Handover Phist
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:24

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The Natural Philosopher :
> 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.

What do you like better? If you need Windows, you can virtualize it on
either OSX or Linux given enough hardware resources.

> And should I attempt to run in parallel or just boot bloody windows when 
> needed?

If you have less than two gig of ram, I'd say yes. If not, Virtualbox is
you friend on Linux, and I've seen the Windows run on a modern Mac even
though I cant pull the name of the sandbox proggy it uses. Either way,
virtual machines are a Good Thing, and you can network the virtual
machine to the host so you can work with files in two different
environments. Images (Draw) in Windows and vim or emacs or ed or
whatever in Linux for code.

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