Win 7 Premium sells for about £60 on average. Then you usually get around 3 years of use until a new OS from MS is out. And you get the service packs free. In the same 3 year time frame that works out cheaper than £30 each year for small OSX updates. Like with everything Apple you pay more for less.
I was just using the price from the quote, didn't know Windows had gotten so much cheaper now
TBH OS X has gone downhill with the introduction of Lion. Snow Leopard (and everything before it) has been a full OS update with revisions similar to that of a new Windows OS (but for £25), but Lion has let the side down being more like a service pack (albeit a large one)
Also OS X get's a major update (i.e. 10.x.0) every two years, no idea why people think it's every year
Oh and Mac OS X minor updates (i.e. 10.x.x) are free and fairly regular (Leopard got eight in two years).
Apple software actually tends to be reasonably priced (and sometimes even cheap
), but then being primarily a hardware company they make the money back on, err, hardware
Microsoft, being primarily a software company, generally charges more (which is fair enough, and they do have some damn good student discounts
).
Anyway before I completely derail this thread into another Mac vs PC argument I was thinking would it be possible to play old Windows games on an ARM tablet? I read somewhere (can't find the link ATM) that Microsoft's Hyper-V could be used to provide some kind of backwards compatibility and would run much quicker than normal virtualisation (no idea if this is true, I know literly nothing about how virtualisation works
). Obviously you'd need some kind of overlay keyboard (like the various Android emulators have). Woud be pretty sweet to play a bit of Sim City and Roller Coaster Tycoon on a little ARM tablet
The rest was the EMFI/BIOS post which has nothing to do with Windows.
Come on get with the program mate
