Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jan 2006 18:17 UTC
Apple's decision to unleash Intel-based Mac systems six months ahead of schedule is proving less successful than the company anticipated. Two weeks following the Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote, sources report that sales of the Intel-based iMac are lower than Apple expected, even taking into account the seasonal post-holiday sales dip, suggesting the 2006 transition to Intel is going to be more difficult than the company has expressed. UPDATE: Good news for our Mac friends: new data now made available suggest that the iMac actually sells well.
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RE: Dual booting is overrated
by rockwell on Tue 24th Jan 2006 20:19
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Member since:2005-09-13
//(or you can quit everything and reboot again every time you need to do something! Arghh!)//
I disagree ... it would take LOTS of reboots for me to justify purchasing a whole 'nuther computer. (I'm currently dual booting FC4 and XP Pro).
Especially since my self-built box boots to a working desktop in either OS in well under one minute. Unless, of course, your time is worth about $500 an hour ... then, it's better to have two systems.
RE: Dual booting is overrated
by EmmEff on Wed 25th Jan 2006 17:52
in reply to "Dual booting is overrated"
Member since:2005-09-16
Member since:
2005-07-07
If VirtualPC or the like does pan out (usable speed) on MacTel's, I'd be very interested. Running OSX and XP at the same time would be very compelling indeed: in fact, I can't think of any other reason I'd buy one until I eventually have to.
I have no use at all for dual booting. Anyone who tries it will discover (as I did w/ XP and Linux), that it's always worth having another cheap x86 box (or you can quit everything and reboot again every time you need to do something! Arghh!)
I find myself closer to giving up on Apple than I've been in 20 years: the platform is still overwhelmingly better for getting stuff done, but it's just not fun being part of it anymore!