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AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on July 11, 2008, 12:45:33 am ---ah, but if you upgrade that same pc from xp to vista, watch it turn into something ass-tastic ;D i think that might be what level is referring to. whereas in Linux (and im guessing Mac) you CAN upgrade the OS for longer on the same machine without a drop in performance. If i had put Vista on this machine instead of Ubuntu, it would have run a lot slower for instance. Now it runs faster than XP. you come to accept that with windows. to me its actually pointless with windows to do that. better to buy a new pc that can handle the new OS and sell the old one with the most up to date version of the OS it was designed for...
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Vista was never mentioned before his comment, so it's pretty difficult to assume that's what he was talking about. Vista is not a popular OS and will not be a required upgrade (the OS after Vista probably will be though), and besides that, it is a completely new OS with a new kernel, so it would only really be fair compare it to when Mac upgraded from OS 9 to OSX. But now the discussion is taking a completely different turn that I don't really feel like getting into.
When Level42 made his first comment, the discussion was about Linux, XP and OS X, so one can only assume that when he said PC he was referring to it having either XP or Linux installed. He never specifies an OS and just says PC, so he seems to also believe that a PC with Linux installed has a shorter usefullness lifespan then a Mac. It was my mistake to focus solely on the Windows side in my last post when I should of also been talking about Linux as well.
Besides, like I've been saying over and over, they all use the same hardware, so you can install OS X, XP, Vista, and Linux all on the same computer. It makes no sense for the hardware of one computer to become obsolete before another computer of similar hardware when they are the same.
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on July 09, 2008, 03:09:59 am ---
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on July 08, 2008, 08:57:45 am ---Why is it that everytime I read this topic, I hear the professor from Futurama in my head?
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well, hubert farnsworth IS in the first post...
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Oh, yeah, I see.
You didn't think I actually -read- the thread, did you?
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on July 11, 2008, 02:39:32 am ---Besides, like I've been saying over and over, they all use the same hardware, so you can install OS X, XP, Vista, and Linux all on the same computer. It makes no sense for the hardware of one computer to become obsolete before another computer of similar hardware when they are the same.
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true enough
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