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Originally Posted by ATMwalking
Mine will be delivered on the 26th.
There has been a lot of testing and a lot of vendors have already got thier apps 10.5 ready.
I think people gave up trying to hack the os a while ago. Apple really locked that down during the early testing of the intel-based binaries. I think the lock is actually tied to the CPU somehow. Meaning it has to be a made-for-apple intel cpu.
BTW, if you want to run XP under OS X, I recommend VMWARE Fusion. I run XP like a Mac OS X application and don't even notice it running. Really no drain on the system (running a dual core 2 cpu with 2 gigs ram).
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I refuse to get tied into the apple hardware game.. And to be honest playing with mates macbook pros has really not made me an apple convert, maybe its the feeling of going with what you know but I disliked the very simplicity that apple provides (I know that sounds backwards but its true) plus its all those little things, backing up my SE phones contacts to PC, running apps that dont exist for apple (yes I know about VMWare), also the piracy element where any app I need is a torrent away. All that said this vid does look appealing and I would like to spend a few days to really feel how usable it is or isnt.
All that said I am not overly impressed with VISTA considering the time and wait (and price) I had a vista ultimate on this box and it was too much of a hog.. I will be rebuilding my media PC and putting my media PC bits into my desktop (I need more processor power for hidef h264 on that one) so that my main desk is vista ready.. Would like to have a Vista / XP / Kubuntu / OS X quad boot and see what gets used.
We should see KDE4 this year, if linux people put a real effort into the UI they could make a unix stable and yet attractive and working UI.. Apple have done it.. They (linux geeks) always seem so close yet never quite get it for a desktop OS. Even playing with the new windowblinds (with alpha transparency) on XP is quite the visual upgrade, really not missing the Vista boot at all right now.