Question of the Day: What is the largest hardware market share without a virtual machine?
Answer: Apple OSX.

With a growing market share, and now using standardized intel hardware why isn’t there a Macintosh OS X 10.4 virtual machine?
This seems…

Gamers and Creators would LOVE to know :)

This month – for the first time – I used my faculty computer upgrade allowance to buy a new Mac (Pro dual Xeon tower) and a 30″ HD cinema monitor. For me the verdict is still out as to whether I can just get all my work done w/out an XP box. So far ive been able to finds apps for most of my critical stuff but I still like Outlook and Outlook express for the way they handle sync with my mobile toys. Id also like to find a DVD player as good as winDVD with all the scren and clip capture stuff. My guess is that its all out there but it ay not be as cheap or easy to find.

Time to join some MAc user groups and get the goodies.

I am a software developer, currently running SuSE with VMware for windows. I do like macs, and I am sure that mac do have both the better hardware and software than windows based dell pc’s.

That is one of the reasons I cannot understand that companies like Borland don’t port their Delphi 2006 developer suite to mac os-x ! I think a lot of delphi and C++ Builder developers would love to swap their windows for os-x.. (like a lot liked it borland made a move to Linux with Kylix..)

I agree that XP is relatively stable… but I just don’t think it offers the same user experience. Everytime I switch out of full screen in Parallels and see my OS X desktop again I feel a sense of relief and wonder why Windows with all it’s market share is so far behind in it’s UI.

Hi my name is Rod and im a MAC USER!

In a roundabout way, yes. What I really am is a guy who wants to run all my software without paying for two operating systems. The point of a computer is to run applications, not a specific operating system. If this were not the case, no one would even consider a nearly $200 solution like Parallels ($80 for Parallels + $100 for XP). If you are convinced that OS X is $180 better than XP, good for you, but I have better things to spend that money on.

“P.S. I have no love of Microsoft. If they were gone tomorrow I would be happy. If OS X had 95% of the market share I would be advocating abandoning it’s closest, non-free, competitor.”

To which I reply:

Uh, what? So, basically you’re a marketshare whore? Whoever has the most marketshare is entitled to exist and everyone else should just pack it in and go away?

Talk about putting an end to innovation… who would Microsoft copy if Apple were to stop making OS X?

Oh, and I got it to run Linux. I keep my Windows box in the corner where it belongs.

P.S. I have no love of Microsoft. If they were gone tomorrow I would be happy. If OS X had 95% of the market share I would be advocating abandoning it’s closest, non-free, competitor.

Because Entourage sucks as an Exchange client, that’s why. It doesn’t support all the features Outlook 2001 did, and it has to download copies of everything instead of just working off the server. All too frequently IME, Entourage gets discombobulated and the local copy of your inbox gets out of sync with the server. The solution? Kill the local copy and let Entourage re-download everything. There’s also no built-in archiving or a facility to make anything like a .PST, so people tend to just keep everything in their inbox. And of course, that magnifies all the problems because it takes FOREVER to do a sync when you first create an Entourage identity on a particular machine or nuke someone’s local inbox cache to fix sync issues.

Of course, if you’ve ever used the Lotus Notes client for the Mac, it makes Entourage’s Exchange connectivity seem wonderful by comparison. It seems like the Mac gets short shrift as a client on most of the popular groupware systems.

Hopefully Leopard Server’s new features will prove to be an Exchange killer in the small-to-medium sized business market that comprises most of my client base.

~Philly