Mac’s are better than PC’s
Everyday I use my iMac and I am more and more convinced that Mac’s are indeed better than Windows based PC’s. Having spent most of my life being a PC nerd I feel I can say this without bias.
As a Web Developer I have to make sure all my websites work on all web browsers. I have to make sure that the site I have designed looks great in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE6, IE7 and IE8! Obviously IE is not available on the Mac so last year I decided to purchase Windows XP Professional and VMware Fusion. Taken from the VMware site about the product:
Seamlessly run your favorite Windows applications and devices, on any Intel-based Mac. Built from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion is the easiest way to switch to Mac—letting you bring all of your Windows applications with you, making the most of your Windows software investment, while providing the perfect safety blanket for the switch.
What is great about VMware Fusion is that it is not entirely an emulator. The CPU is not emulated but instead uses virtualization. This means that Windows running under VMware is getting full power from the CPU. What is even better is as my iMac is dual core, VMware Fusion gives one core to OS X and the other to Windows. This results in almost now slowdown on the host or client operating systems.
VMware Fusion is built on the industry’s most mature, and powerful virtualization engine, under development for more than a decade. This powerful technology delivers the speed and stability you expect, with low impact on your Mac, letting you enjoy the full power of your hardware.
Using VMware Fusion allowed me to installed two copies of Windows XP one for IE6 and one for IE7/8. I then ran both versions of Windows XP at the same time each occupying one of OS X 10.5′s spaces (virtual desktops). That’s three OS’s at the same time! I was amazed at how smooth they all ran and how little impact running two XP’s had on OS X. I could switch between OS X, Windows XP (running IE8) and Windows XP (running IE6) seamlessly. I was even editing a large file in Adobe Fireworks in OS X and playing music in iTunes.
I challenge any off-the-shelf PC to do better. This is just one more thing that makes me realise why I could never go back to owning a PC.
My iMac’s specs:
- OS X 10.5.7
- 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
- 320GB HDD
Operating Systems, Uncategorized, Web Development
i told you so i told you so i told you so
my specs are:
os 10.5.7
2.6 intel core duo
4 gb ram
1 tb
hmmmm if only I had a spare grand or so would go out and get one as I want to play around with macs more…. have to say it does look pretty cool. can you run mac on VM? as I have a linux box sitting under my desk with VMWare installed and running windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003.
Apple don’t allow you to install OS X on a PC or VM as there is a chip on the main board that has to be present for OS X to run. BUT… People have hacked it. You can set up your own Hackintosh, there are guides available here: http://www.osx86project.org/
So in your article you’ve concluded that a Mac is better than a PC due to the fact that your virtual machines in VMware (third-party software) run smoothly on a box with an abundance of computing power? You’ve managed to do this without a comparison study, or even mentioning any differences between Macs and PCs.
“I challenge any off-the-shelf PC to do better. This is just one more thing that makes me realise why I could never go back to owning a PC.”
I’ve used VMware on a PC with much lower computing power. Worked great for multiple OS’s. That’s because it’s good software. Good third party software. I’d hazard the guess that any off-the-shelf PC with the same specs as your iMac would perform just as well.
I challenge you to actually put some research into your ill-formed article, and back up your claims with insightful information. Perhaps information actually related to the comparison of Macs and PCs.
I’ve have been a PC enthusiast for most of my adult life and recently switched to Mac’s after defending PC’s all the time. I felt it was about time I actually tried a Mac. After using a Mac for over a year now I can honestly say that I could never go back to using a PC. This article is my personal view and felt it was news worthy because I was surprised by how smooth OS X was compared to anything I have tried on the PC.
OK, the title is a bit misleading as the article is really about virtualization, but my experience of this was just another thing in the long list of things that I regularly post about that confirm my love for Apple Mac’s.
This article is not a scientific study it’s just my personal option, let’s not forget that is what blogs are all about.