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

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From: Alan Braggins
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:36

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In article <1237400429.21073.1@proxy02.news.clara.net>, The Natural Philosopher 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
[...]
>I guess I wes right, at that ;-)

Or you don't know far enough, which appears rather more likely.

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From: armb@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Alan Braggins)
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Subject: Re: I need windows, but don't want it!
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