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Re: Win 10 On a MacBook

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Alan Browne:
> >>>> eh ... I use WinXP and Win 7 on a couple Macs in VM's because I need to
> >>>> ... but I can't for the life of me imagine using a Mac under bootcamp.

Davoud:
> >>> What's right for you can't be wrong. But if you were running heavy-duty
> >>> image-processing applications in Windows you might imagine running
> >>> Windows natively on a Mac.

Alan Browne:
> >> After that addled thought process I'd come to my senses and buy a
> >> barebone kit from Tiger Direct or Direct Canada with the appropriate
> >> killer CPU and GPU and build a Windows machine.
> >
> > I can't for the life of me imagine buying a Windows-only machine when
> > I've got six Macs in the house, any one of which could be a powerful
> > Windows machine. Two of them are, in fact.

Alan Browne:
> If the goal was to have a machine for "running heavy duty 
> image-processing applications in Windows" then there would be no point 
> in getting a Mac in the first place.  Just build the beast.

Ah, you're thinking Photoshop, video editing, that sort of thing. I
would never dream of running those things under Windows. Why would I
ever run anything under Windows that was available for the Mac? I'm
talking about applications that aren't available for the Mac,
specifically a few astro-image processing applications such as
AstroArt, AIP4WIN, CCDStack and MaximDL.

> That said, it would probably cost less to get a Mac Pro as you get 2 
> high end graphics processors included for far less than the cost of 
> buying the same GPU boards for a PC.

In fact my late-model Retina 5K iMac w. 32GB RAM is quite satisfactory
for all of my needs. So is my MBP Retina SSD with only 16GB RAM.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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Win 10 On a MacBook Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-05-17 06:59 -0400
  Re: Win 10 On a MacBook George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-17 09:28 -0500
    Re: Win 10 On a MacBook android <here@there.was> - 2015-05-17 16:37 +0200
      Re: Win 10 On a MacBook Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-05-17 11:04 -0400
        Re: Win 10 On a MacBook android <here@there.was> - 2015-05-17 17:35 +0200
    Re: Win 10 On a MacBook Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-05-17 12:54 -0700
  Re: Win 10 On a MacBook sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-05-17 19:51 +0000
  Re: Win 10 On a MacBook Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-17 18:12 -0400
    Re: Win 10 On a MacBook Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-05-17 20:29 -0400
      Re: Win 10 On a MacBook Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-17 20:40 -0400
        Re: Win 10 On a MacBook Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-05-18 22:05 -0400
          Re: Win 10 On a MacBook Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-19 19:00 -0400
            Re: Win 10 On a MacBook Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-05-19 19:20 -0400
              Re: Win 10 On a MacBook Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-19 20:43 -0400
      Re: Win 10 On a MacBook Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-05-18 07:35 +0000

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