Apple v Vista

[slinxy]

Vista seems fine on the two macbook pros we have in the office running in parallels, both running with two gig worth of memory, but its usally only run in parallels for small apps and utils due to the drivers and I not benched it (I don't see the point )

I run it in boot camp if we really wanted to run vista, again I ain't have time to bench it and compare it to a pc with the same hardware specs.

 

[fdxd]

theres nothing stopping you using bootcamp and parallel to vista and driver support is quite good; serveal people here are running it.

Vista is very rough on a macbook right now. Its experimental at best. Not useable for a day to day basis. You'd have better luck on the desktops where you dont have to worry about it eating your battery fast.

 

[Una]

Vista is very rough on a macbook right now. Its experimental at best. Not useable for a day to day basis. You'd have better luck on the desktops where you dont have to worry about it eating your battery fast.

I have got vista/osx and linux on my mini mac and really responsive times wise its like linux > vista > osx. OSX really does run like a slug on this hardware, I was surprised vista was more responsive.

And I'm obviously pushing mine more? So? It's a well known fact OS X crawls when it's RAM is pushed, nothing wrong with that, all operating systems struggle under heavy RAM load.

It crawls under low usage as well, mucho delay. 2.6 kernel in linux has made such an improvement over their threading/scheduling model that it has left osx and the like well behind now.

 

[zetec452]

I'd at least get a miniumum of 1 gig of ram probably 2gig.

My girlfriends MacBook runs like a dead dog with 512mb and could do with at least 2 gig of ram.

 

[Una]

I'd at least get a miniumum of 1 gig of ram probably 2gig.

My girlfriends MacBook runs like a dead dog with 512mb and could do with at least 2 gig of ram.

I have 1gb in my mini and even just coding in a terminal there is definatly some lag on input and switching windows. This is under light load as well, no where near max usage.

 

[zetec452]

I have 1gb in my mini and even just coding in a terminal there is definatly some lag on input and switching windows. This is under light load as well, no where near max usage.

I've not used a mac with any more than 512mb of Ram. I would hope that 1 gig should be enough to run a mac smoothly.

 

[Una]

I've not used a mac with any more than 512mb of Ram. I would hope that 1 gig should be enough to run a mac smoothly.

Thats the thing it is smooth but not as responsive, hard to explain really You will see the difference if you use something like Arch linux and then boot into osx. Its got nothing to do with the amount of ram available its to do with the way mach kernels threading/allocation/scheduling works it seems (Read - outdated code).

 

[IntoTheVoid]

I have a Mac Pro, however although it is great the main bugbear for me is the blurry looking fonts. XP and Vista look crystal clear on my monitor compared to this.

 

[Logsi]

once you've had Mac, you don't go back.

Ive had a PowerMac G5 since december, just got a new Macbook Pro and i havnt been on my PC in ages. All Computers have 2GB of RAM.

I dont really need the games the pc entails when i have awesome software to play with!

Vista is not that big a difference from XP when i had a go on it. Just seemed tarted up.

Josh

 

[Logsi]

I am a pragmatic person and I don't wear glasses. 3D cad and frame analysis is very intesive work, especially with everything else going on as well, I just don't seem to get any issues, that is all I am saying.

I chose this machine because I wanted to get some work done, it does that for me and then some. Perhaps next time I will buy a computer that gives me something to moan about.

I agree with you on this.

I have nearly maxxed out my RAM on my macbook pro, got it to about 27mb left free. I had Aperture and CS2 running and it runs fine so hiccups at all.

Josh