wine is just an envorionment to run windows based programs in using wrappers. only reason to use wine is if you have a windows program you just CANT live without (most of which have replacements that are free under GNU license that are made specifically for linux). which for me is games. which i use windows for anyway.
answer me this ONE question and i may just buy a mac. if i dont get the resuilts i want from dell.
can you boot linux on a mac? mac is a unix based OS as is Linux. so if i can boot linux and windows without having to have mac OSX installed on the hard drive then i will definitly be considereing a mac. i know their plenty powerful and a bit cheaper than pc notebooks so id be down with that.
update. just got off the phone with a senior technician from dell and theyre shipping me a new DVD optical drive. hopefully not the same one. but if it is and it works, ill be fine. heres to hoping.
Yea Dell are great like that. Like I said if you're in the "right profession" you can get anything fixed or repaired. I was a student at the time but I told them I was a graphic designer - they replaced a single dead pixel monitor (did have backlight bleeding though).
I dunno about Linux since I've never tried it. Any x86 or 64bit version will work. There are unix options within the bootcamp installer. Dunno about removing OSX though. I suppose its possible if the linux distro supports EFI.
well i guess i got some research today. cause i'm looking at acer, asus, or sony at the moment. all of which ive heard better things about than dell. better specs although a little bit more pricey. and apparently my dell was supposed to have 256mb dedicated video card but my system only tells me its 128. but it also says its got like 800 odd mb of total memory. i think my comp is just whack yo.
I'd recommend Sony or Asus. Sony are a bit like Apple and Alienware though, you pay a premium for high quality components. Bonus is they look purdy and usually get a very long battery life.
My next laptop will be that Sony ultralight laptop since the MBA doesn't have a DVD drive -..-
Welcome to the world of Dell. I've owned three of them and they've all been worthless. Desktops are made using low-quality parts and weak power-supplies, hard drives fail, etc. The laptop I owned started getting vertical lines through the display in less than 2 years.
I've got to side with a few other posters in suggesting a MacBook (Pro?) laptop. My MBP runs Windows XP flawlessly, and in all the tests CNET ran last year, they found the MBP to be the fastest Vista laptop among all manufacturers. Don't buy Mac desktops though. They're next to impossible to upgrade. Instead, stick to smaller boutique shops like Velocity Micro. You'll pay a little more, but you'll get retail parts rather than OEM, better technical support, and a lot less bloatware.
IT LIVES!!! got my dvd drive today. that was fast. only took a day. put it in and reinstalled vista. vista crash dumped the first time i booted but sees to have fixed itself and is running fine for now.
my warranty runs out june 30th this year. so would it be worth it to buy a warranty extension? i'm not sure whether i want to spend 250$ just so i can have parts replaced. or should i save the money and if something happens again after its expired just go buy my new laptop?
From my opinion on people saying computers go slow:
Windows is only as slow as the person using it. I've never had a single problem with Windows and I've never been aware of having a virus or any other software.
Macs aren't actually any faster and all they achieve is a system which you can't really do much with.
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Oops... dunno how i came across this post but i assumed it was new :S sorry about that.
From personal experience, if you get a MacBook for Windows, use Windows XP. The newer ones running Windows XP are fantastic. Along with that, make sure it's not a first or second generation Core Duo one, as from personal experience I can say it runs horribly. The drivers on the Core Duo machines are very buggy, and cause excessive slowdown.
You can run Linux on it just fine. I've done it.
The thing is, Macs are not unique. At all. The only difference is that they have a TPM module that allows OSX to run (OSX checks for it's existance and hacks are required to circumvent this check). It is just a generic PC in a rather fancy-looking case. The audio is just sigmatel. The WiFi is just atheros. The video (in the macbook) is just Intel X3000 integrated graphics. the Mouse and Keyboard are just USB. The iSight camera is just USB, and has drivers. Nothing in it is unique except for the OS. You can run Mac OS X on most Pentium 4 or newer computers as long as you have compatible hardware (The Dell 4700c is a great match).
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Originally Posted by Dr. James Windows is not emulated. Which you can't say for Wine
WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator. It emulates only a few spots, but most of it is just recompiled / wrapped.
I'm getting an iMac soon, and I found out you can rig it up to a PC and use it as the screen (provided you have the IP). There's some program you need from the net though.
You need to go through the internet for it?! That seems like an odd idea, since it's right there and all.
That can't possibly run all that well can it? You'd do a lot better picking up a cheap screen for your PC, 20" screens are getting to just a couple hundred dollars (AU).
Originally Posted by Dr. James Windows is not emulated. Which you can't say for Wine
WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator. It emulates only a few spots, but most of it is just recompiled / wrapped.
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Is there a performance cut with Wine, or any other limitations? Just saying there's none with bootcamp on a Mac but it's a totally different thing altogether with different solutions for different needs - it really is just Windows running on a PC designed by Apple. Wine is ran from within your current OS.
Zigzag; what do you mean exactly? There's no video-in for the display on an iMac. You could get it to work as another monitor or TV by using a zero-latency breakout box or an EyeTV box.
I'm not sure how it works, but some IT guy I was talking to did it. Its probably terrible complex and not worth doing coz I already have an OK screen. But its slightly too small for standard resolutions ;_; 14.9 inches or something, so bits get cut off.
guess whos getting a sony vaio! me thats who. screw you dell. screwwwww you. never again will i purchase from you.
Um... hate to say this, but the sony vaio is far more likely to break down than a dell. Let me know if it still works in 4 years. I hate how 80% of the electrical things I have which breaks down are Sony products. Half of the Sony CD-drives I use shatter the CD. Literally shatters them. My Walkman's battery cover broke off, making it useless without a piece of tape to hold the battery. The speakers have a loud humming sound. A monitor that sparked and died was made by Sony. And their headphones are priced twice as much as a 'unbranded' headphone that had better sound quality.
Don't know if it's only the Sony products that are sold in Malaysia, but I'm telling you guys to never, ever buy a Sony product. It's our responsibility as consumers to complain about crappy products that we pay too much for
Disclaimer: Any sarcasm in my posts will not be mentioned as that would ruin the purpose. It is assumed that the reader is intelligent enough to tell the difference between what is sarcasm and what is not.
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i think my comp is just whack yo.
It emulates only a few spots, but most of it is just recompiled / wrapped.
but it's a totally different thing altogether with different solutions for different needs - it really is just Windows running on a PC designed by Apple. Wine is ran from within your current OS.
