Apple Says there are Only Two OS's - OS X and Windows 7

Re:Apple Says there are Only Two OS's - OS X and Windows 7 by maxharris on Saturday February 18, 2012 @01:31PM (#3607262)

There's no need to change your OS (especially because the OS really doesn't matter anymore). If you're tired of the beachball, get a RAM upgrade. I can upgrade my machine (which has 8 GB) to 16 GB for about a day's pay (or two). And I don't make very much money right now. Changing the OS usually takes an entire weekend (tweaking things and moving stuff takes longer than many of us think). So by the time you get it done, you've probably broken even.

Unless you like doing this sort of pain, in which case you can't be helped :)

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Re:Apple Says there are Only Two OS's - OS X and Windows 7 by mikehoward on Saturday February 18, 2012 @08:55PM (#3608374)

my main machine is an mbp - which is maxed at 8 Gig. Every day it starts paging under at most a modest load. This is an artifact of the operating system and Safari (which leaks memory)

I had the same issues with uSoft windows which led me to switching to Mac's. Early macbooks and mbp's did not do this, but have been getting progressively worse since Snow Leopard. Lion has a very nice interface and a lot of convenience, but, for me, it's getting intolerable.

I'm reverting to Linux for development work. I'll probably keep the mac for graphics

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Re:Apple Says there are Only Two OS's - OS X and Windows 7 by smallegan on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @02:32PM (#3617728)

Run Chrome not Safari.

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