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  • So is anybody having fun with Win Xp?

    From henree21@henree21@yahoo.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 23:04:45
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    I don't have a Intel Mac. But wanted to know if it has been a pleasant experience for those that have tried it?

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  • From Davoud@star@sky.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, April 13, 2006 08:14:58
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    henree21@yahoo.com wrote:
    I don't have a Intel Mac. But wanted to know if it has been a pleasant experience for those that have tried it?

    I don't have a Mactel either, but I have six PPC Macs with OS X and a
    laptop with XP Pro SP2.

    XP Pro works OK for me, but with it's toad-ugly, non-intuitive
    interface, and stability not up to OS X standards, it would be a bit of
    a stretch to say that using it is "pleasant."

    I will, however, need Windows for the forseeable future, and I'm going
    to start replacing my PPC Macs with Mactels in the fall, when I expect
    that OS X/Windows virtualization (running side-by-side, not
    dual-booting) will be quite mature, and a better experience than it is
    today. But Windoze will still be Windoze.

    Davoud

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  • From Quiet Desperation@x@x.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, April 13, 2006 05:32:28
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    In article <1144908285.076001.230600@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
    henree21@yahoo.com wrote:

    I don't have a Intel Mac. But wanted to know if it has been a pleasant experience for those that have tried it?

    I use XP at work.

    No, it is not a pleasant experience. I had to force quite IE nine times yesterday, and twice Acrobat Reader brought the whole computer to its
    knees for extended periods. And this is a workstation maintained by IT professionals with special startup scripts that are supposed to make
    sure everything is kosher.

    Although it's still better than Solaris, used via Exceed, where the
    waveform panel in Modelsim kept mysteriously vanishing. I actually
    prefer to use command line scripting in Unix because the GUIs found
    there are hideous abominations.
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  • From bobbagoose@bobbagoose@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, April 13, 2006 06:59:44
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    I recently bought a MacMini and was comfortably making the switch from
    XP to mac. Then 3 days later Apple released BootCamp. I immediately
    installed XP on my mac assuming that I would run all my old programs in
    XP mode where intel native (universal) or just OSX versions were
    unavailable.

    XP itself works great. As fast as any standard PC, for comparison it
    appears a hell of a lot faster on my Mac than on my AMD 2000+, 512Mb PC
    I was using before.

    But that was then and this is now.....

    I have used XP for a total of about 15 minutes since, as everything i
    need to do I can do in OSX, in a much more pleasant, stable and
    comfortable environment.

    Overall, there is little to distinguish a Mac based XP install with a
    PC one.

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  • From Alice Faber@afaber@panix.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:43:16
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <1144908285.076001.230600@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
    henree21@yahoo.com wrote:

    I don't have a Intel Mac. But wanted to know if it has been a pleasant experience for those that have tried it?

    I don't know if I'd call it pleasant, but it works. It's surrealistic
    hearing the Windows chimes and seeing a Windows desktop on a Mac. But it *does* work. And more to the point, Matlab, which doesn't really run in
    Mac OS under Intel (you can do a command-line version, but no GUI), runs beautifully in XP. Many of our researchers rely on Matlab, so this is
    crucial for us.

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  • From VAXman-@VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, April 13, 2006 18:59:44
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <130420060814586680%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> writes:


    henree21@yahoo.com wrote:
    I don't have a Intel Mac. But wanted to know if it has been a pleasant
    experience for those that have tried it?

    I don't have a Mactel either, but I have six PPC Macs with OS X and a
    laptop with XP Pro SP2.

    XP Pro works OK for me, but with it's toad-ugly, non-intuitive
    interface, and stability not up to OS X standards, it would be a bit of
    a stretch to say that using it is "pleasant."

    Toads everywhere should take offense to you insulting them with Weendoze.

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    "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"
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  • From jerryeveretts@ifreeley@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, April 14, 2006 10:45:29
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    lets call a spade a spade here, I just bought a new mactel, and I LOVE
    it, I have no need to install XP, BUT, XP seems to be as stable as
    anything else these days, as long as it isn't buggered up with malware
    and viruses. My XP machine ran day in and day out with no crashes, no
    reboots, and no problems, there would be the occasional application
    that would hang, and I would have to kill it with task manager, but the
    same has happened twice on my new mac with Microsoft Office 2004.
    The only time I ever needed to reboot the XP machine, was when a
    software install needed it to. Other than that it ran fine. Also I am
    an IT manager, and I have an IBM i-series, and a half dozen Windows
    servers, running advanced server 2003, no problems there either, I
    reboot about every 6 months just for good measure, but they run day in
    and day out, on Dell Poweredge rackmount servers.

    two shiny penny's there for ya
    Jerry

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