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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 2809712" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>You need to go read up on what OSX actually is. It is not even in the same galaxy as "<em>closed ecosystem that's built for tablets</em>". What it really is? ---><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" target="_blank">Unix!</a> My 1st time seeing Unix was on a DEC engineering workstation that cost $30,000. My second time seeing an actual box running it was a Silicon Graphics engineering workstation that cost about the same. They were running advanced 3D solid modeling software and simultaneous 5 axis CAM programming software because at the time that's the only hardware and OS that was capable of doing the math, at least that was available for purchase outside of DOD or NASA. Mac OSX 10 is most certainly not a tablet OS. FYI, Linux is an open source version of Unix that runs on PC hardware, which by the way is what Apple is using these days. Wasn't always so, but it is now since PC hardware has advanced enough to run the real thing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I was mainly referring to the performance of the OS. Windows just gets crappier, slower and buggier as time rolls along. Best thing to do with it is a clean install, then install the latest service pack and turn auto update completely off! If you don't let it update itself it'll run for quite awhile, as in years. MS updates fix a lot of things and screws up other things in the process. It seems to need a clean install roughly once a year, maybe a little more when you let it "maintain itself" like they trick you into doing. But with Windows 10, they don't give you a choice. It is soooooooooo nice not to have to deal with that anymore. FYI, I run Win 7 with Parallels on my Mac for a piece of software that only works in Windows. I have updating turned totally off and it has ran perfectly with clean logs since this thing was new. I also only fire it up when I need it tho.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 2809712, member: 3099"] You need to go read up on what OSX actually is. It is not even in the same galaxy as "[I]closed ecosystem that's built for tablets[/I]". What it really is? --->[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix"]Unix![/URL] My 1st time seeing Unix was on a DEC engineering workstation that cost $30,000. My second time seeing an actual box running it was a Silicon Graphics engineering workstation that cost about the same. They were running advanced 3D solid modeling software and simultaneous 5 axis CAM programming software because at the time that's the only hardware and OS that was capable of doing the math, at least that was available for purchase outside of DOD or NASA. Mac OSX 10 is most certainly not a tablet OS. FYI, Linux is an open source version of Unix that runs on PC hardware, which by the way is what Apple is using these days. Wasn't always so, but it is now since PC hardware has advanced enough to run the real thing. I was mainly referring to the performance of the OS. Windows just gets crappier, slower and buggier as time rolls along. Best thing to do with it is a clean install, then install the latest service pack and turn auto update completely off! If you don't let it update itself it'll run for quite awhile, as in years. MS updates fix a lot of things and screws up other things in the process. It seems to need a clean install roughly once a year, maybe a little more when you let it "maintain itself" like they trick you into doing. But with Windows 10, they don't give you a choice. It is soooooooooo nice not to have to deal with that anymore. FYI, I run Win 7 with Parallels on my Mac for a piece of software that only works in Windows. I have updating turned totally off and it has ran perfectly with clean logs since this thing was new. I also only fire it up when I need it tho. [/QUOTE]
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