From: Dave M. <mc...@ne...> - 2011-08-03 03:11:50
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On 7/31/11 1:03 PM, Douglas Goodall wrote: > If you are phasing out your Mac OS, what are you moving to? > > I am still gloriously happy with my 8-core Mac Pro. But if there is something > better I would want to know. Well, there's a bit of a story behind that. I will try to be brief since it's very much off-topic. I found myself in need of a newer desktop machine, as Apple seems to go to great lengths to ensure that each successive release of OS X is slower and fatter for PPC machines. I decided to build a "hackintosh", or an OS X machine not built by Apple, using commodity PC parts (though high-end ones) that have been verified as being compatible with OS X. I built a big, bad Core i7 machine with a very fast system disk, a serious graphics card, and a respectable amount of memory. When I got the system put together, I didn't have an OS X DVD burned from the image file yet, so I decided to throw a temporary copy of Ubuntu 11.04 on it just to test the hardware. The performance amazed me, so I played with it for a couple of days. It worked SO well, and was SO fast, that I just left Ubuntu installed on it. I've since gotten it set up just the way I want it, with very few exceptions, and I'm very happy with it. I still have an OS X laptop (typing on it now, Macbook Air) so I'm not abandoning OS X, but for my primary desktop machine, I've very quickly found that Linux is a faster and more productive choice for me. > p.s. I wish I could say I never used Windows, but at least I have been on Unix > since version 7. Nice! -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL |