[mythtv-users] OT - Mac Advocacy, was; Which SVN?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Mar 10 19:23:16 UTC 2008


On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Brian Wood wrote:

>
> On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:48 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>>
>> For me Macs got a lot more attractive when they went to Intel chips.
>> It's nice having the option of running MacOS, Linux, *or* Windows.
>
> You've been able to run Linux on a Mac for a long time, perhaps not as
> "full-featured" a version but you could do basic stuff.
>
> Windows could be run using VirtualPC, but you had to time it with a
> calendar, the intel CPUs have made this a lot more practical.

Virtual PC made me want to find the person who was responsible for  
releasing it and gouge his eyes out with a rusty spork. I run  
Parallels now and I only want to throw my machine across the room a  
couple times a day. At least it only crashes when Windows would  
normally crash on any hardware now.


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