Posted on 01/10/2006 3:05:07 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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where I am at right now is just fine, but eventually I will need another computer for the office upstairs.
I don't know if I will spend the money to get a high end computer, be it a PC or a Mac.....
if office will run on OS X wouldn't it also run on a BSD setup?
For your Mac list, some exciting news!
MS Office is written especially for OSX. I would guess that it won't run on a vanilla BSD.
OpenOffice runs on Linux, don't know about bsd
If Apple can get more performance out of Intel chips, I might just go for a Mac in a few years. If seems like every time Intel doubles the speed of their processors, Windows takes back half the performance gain with an even bigger, slower, memory-hogging version of Windows. This may sound hard to believe, but only 10 years ago a computer running at 400 mhz with 128 megabytes of memory would have been a database server with 100 users. Now you need 256 megabytes just to run Windows and all the hacker and virus protection software. It's rediculous; I have a 1.8 ghz machine with 128 meg of ram and I'm going to have to upgrade it to 256 meg to run Windows, internet firewall, and anti-virus software properly.
OS X uses a lot of memory, too, but luckily your processor performance is spared since OS X offloads all the GUI graphics onto the video card.
I still regularly use an old AMD 1333 with XP, and it runs fine, but it does have 512MB, and that's most likely why.
Does this mean that all the upgraded software I bought for the G5 will no longer work on the new intel-based computer?
What about the cocoa software?
you'll have to ask someone else :)
I don't have the answer for you off of the top of my head....
Wait until you see LongHorn -- that thing is a HOG. Also, if you want any .NET application to run on your PC, you'll need to ensure that the .NET frameworks (20 Megs) is already installed on your system. If not, than the .NET app won't run.
Intel stock is down? Crap, there goes my mink coat!
I'm not real fond of 'puters anyway....except for FReeping!
Depends on the software/company. The key phrase is: "universal binary". If you see that phrase, then both Mac Platforms are supported. Check the companies and their web sites to see if there are any updates.
I have another, new PC with a 3.2 ghz Intel processor and 512 meg of memory and it runs Windows XP just fine. But I'm still amazed that my other PC with 128 meg actually needs more memory to run Windows XP with good performance. What does Windows use all the memory for? I don't know...it's astounding. Back in 1997 we only needed 32 meg to run Windows NT. The memory consumption really seems to be excessive in Windows XP.
The Intel-based Macs have a emulator called Rosetta that will execute a lot of the existing PowerPC software. There are conflicting reports about Rosetta's ability to execute code written for the Altivec units on the PowerPC, but the details should be known soon.
What about the cocoa software?
It should work with the emulator. For software developers, it's usually easy to adapt existing Cocoa applications for native execution on Intel processors.
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