Re: Can OSX run on a DELL

In article <VCOOf.4292$TK5.1156@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Stew <antwun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

George Graves wrote:

In article <S8NOf.248402$H54.182221@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Stew <antwun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lefty Bigfoot wrote:

Stew wrote
(in article <QWLOf.248111$H54.160025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Lefty Bigfoot wrote:

Stew wrote
(in article <BkLOf.254413$K35.122445@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Lefty Bigfoot wrote:

MuahMan wrote
(in article <mYGdnchMu-SUoZbZRVn-vQ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In fact a review was just done on OSX on a dell VS. OSX on
a Mac. On several of the tests the Dell crushed the Apple
with it own OS. Pretty damn funny.

Link?

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbookpro.ars

Macbook beats the Dell on for Xbench in the majority of the
categories.

Macbook beats the crap out of the dell running Cinebench.

Quicktime encoding has more to do with the hard drive speed than
anything else, but it almost a dead heat with the Macbook pro.

Not bad for a machine that costs half as much as the MacBook Pro.

Provided running a completely unsupported and illegal OS
installation does it for you,

I'll install linux on it and get all the benefits the Maccies crow about
(no spyware, no viruses, no microsoft)

....no decent software.

Subjective. Define "decent software"

Major stuff. You know, Draemweaver, Illustrator, Freehand MX, Indesign,
Photoshop, Authorware, MS Office, ArchiCAD (or an equivalent like
AutoCAD), fewer games than a Mac (!), iTunes (if you have an iPod) any
of the iLife apps like iMovie (or even the crumby Windows 'Movie
Maker"). Believe me, I have the Linux "equivalents" to many of these
titles installed under X11, and I can tell you that the old adage "one
gets what one pays for" is certainly true in the software world. GIMP is
NOT a viable or even a decent replacement for Photoshop, neither is
Inkscape a replacement for Illustrator, nor would Scribus make a pimple
on Microsoft Publisher's ass, much less act as a replacement (by any
stretch of the term) for InDesign. I have Open Office, and while it IS
better than most Linux "replacement" excuses for major software titles,
its no MS Office in a world which doesn't just need 85% compatibility
with Office in order to compete with it, it needs 100% compliance!

If one just wants to "play" with computers, these programs are OK, I
guess, but if one wants to get some actual work done along these lines,
good luck (GIMP, for instance, doesn't even natively support CMYK, it
uses a plug-in for that. A plug-in that works after the fact, with
variable results.).

and all the other things OS X doesn't
have (Open system that is totally configurable and customizable, secure,
and not tied into a proprietary manufacturer with questionable oversight)

And no software.

Outright lie. Prove there is no software that runs on Linux.

Let me rephrase that for you, if you insist on such pedanticism. When I
say "no software" I'm referrring to major titles from major developers.
There are only open source equivalents of major packages out there,
certainly no choices, and what IS there is many generations behind the
commercially available equivalents. This goes for everything from Open
Office to Linux/GNU ASIC design tools and libraries Like gEDA and
Alliance.

--
George Graves
The health of our society is a direct result of the men
and women we choose to admire.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Searching for app equivalent
    ... one thing I'm still looking for is a replacement for Treepad(tree style ... text,notes,database).The one feature I can't find in any of the Linux ... equivalents is the "automatic paste".You could go down a ... next line.Just a handy feature that I wondered if anybody found in any ...
    (alt.os.linux)
  • Dell Inspiron 15n
    ... Considering buying one with linux. ... I've heard ugly rumors about Dell not offering the ... yr replacement for this linux version or voiding warranty if OS ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)
  • RE: Laptop Considerations
    ... > graphics designers consider these strange resolutions the ... > wireless, nice ... > so I believe it can run Linux without troubles. ... > I have a dell xps laptop and it runs great, ...
    (Pen-Test)
  • RE: Laptop Considerations
    ... I believe that drivers for Linux did not exist. ... the case, you could always go for an external card, but it wouldn't hurt ... > wireless, nice ... > I have a dell xps laptop and it runs great, ...
    (Pen-Test)
  • Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?
    ... They advertise it on their website, but Dell will not, under any circumstance, sell you a preinstalled Linux box. ... The typical Dell customer doesn't want to know about apt-get this or dpkg that or Sarge, Etch, multiverse, universe, etc. Typical Dell customers will think their computers are broken when they refuse to play a particular .wmv file they found in a Yahoo! ... Dell and Novell today announced an agreement to offer Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 certified on select Dell PowerEdge servers worldwide. ...
    (Debian-User)
Loading