[Ti] a Mac OS X/Windows dual booting machine
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galahad9 at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 25 10:30:11 PST 2003
According to Mike Stanley:
>Your friend flipped because you compared two completely different -
>not even remotely related things?
Crazy old world, no? <laughs> yeah, he thought it was pretty cool.
But then, expecting good scientific analysis/comparison from a
graphics guy [my friend] isn't exactly a rational expectation,
either, is it?
>That would be like me comparing how fast my TiBook recovers from
>being asleep and the amount of time it takes my G4 to boot-up.
>
>VMWare on the PC side (which outperforms VPC on the Mac by a country
>mile, albeit probably being easier to emulate x86 hardware on x86
>hardware) can do the same "magic" saved state thing as well.
>
>That having been said, I always save the state of my VPC's as well -
>but I don't find their restore time to be anything worth flipping
>over - other than it being convenient.
Well, despite my nickname, I can't remember the last time I 'flipped'
over anything, but that aside, I was merely reporting his reaction,
not mine. It's all so damned subjective, eh?
And convenience... well, for someone like myself, who works under
constant deadlines, you just said [one of] the magic word[s]. Still
not 'flipping' though. :=)
~flipper
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