I always thought that it was the hardware that was faster -- because of fewer
bottlenecks in a Mac setup, Chuck.
I reckon a good reason for me to continue using my Mac is its continued
resistance to malware . . .
. . . oh, and the fact that the average Apple machine will last a couple of
years longer than a Winders equivalent (but does that mean that I have to keep
it longer to prove that? ;-))
Chris
On 29 Sep 2010, at 20:23, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> The Mac folk I think are loathe to admit it but the Mac superiority on
> performance over Windows is a "used to was" if it was ever much at all.
> For some time now they've been running on basically the same hardware.
> It's fun to rag on Microsoft (I like to do it as well) but they've had
> some excellent OS designers in their stable and they also own rights to
> all the patents from OS/2 development days which includes all of the IBM
> patents plus many which they created themselves. Furthermore, much of
> what constitutes good OS design has been public domain for a long time.
> IBM's basic patents on virtual memory hardware and operating systems
> expired about 25-30 years ago.
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