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Re: Win 10 On a MacBook

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On 2015-05-19 19:20, Davoud wrote:
> 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.

I wasn't referring to anything specific other than the OP's restriction 
of Windows.  Therefore if I had a heavy graphics processing need that 
had to be under Windows then I would simply build a Windows machine - 
not boot a Mac under Windows.

>> 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.

But your needs are not the high end graphics processing referred to in 
the OP.

Current iMacs tend to have lower powered GPU's than high end graphics 
oriented computers.  I have an i7 driven iMac with 24 GB of RAM and it 
is clear that graphics are a bottleneck with some high definition video. 
  Thankfully that isn't especially important to me.

The current best option 5K iMac GPU is the AMD Radeon R9 M295X which is 
a laptop GPU.  Nothing to sneeze at - but not the best GPU out there by 
a wide margin.  I guess power/heat issues are the limiting factors due 
to the ridiculously over slimmed iMac case.

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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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