Question: Registry Edit Programs

[The Natural Philosopher]

And enjoy a beautifully crafted, but ultimately unusable computer..

[The Natural Philosopher]

You obviously DID NOT buy a Mac then ;-)

[Colin Wilson]

You haven't found many torrent sites then, I see :-p

[Owain]

I've often wondered whether my defragmenter actually *does* anything, or just draws prettier pictures the less frequently I run it.

Owain

[Andy Hall]

Listen. It runs Unix.

What more do you need? Even an 11 year old (in Jurassic Park) "knows" it - even under stress - although that was SGI.

Natively, it has all that I need - Apple Mail actually works properly with IMAP (Outlook, well....), and I have a choice of News readers (very important) and even MS Orifice if I want to kill people with Powerpoint (which is rare).

So the bread and butter stuff is handled.

Then if I have to run any legacy applications, I can run either Parallels or VMWare to provide a virtual PC. This has considerable advantages. With the Windows monitor (It isn't an operating system), I can arrange a complete virtual machine with all updates applied and keep a copy of it as an image. When it breaks (with the same inevitability as Peter Parry's Saniflo), I can just dump the offending copy and be back in operation in a couple of minutes.

Alternatively, I can have whichever flavour of Linux I like at the flick of an image.

On the Intel platform, this all runs very well

The market thinks so as well.

I'm really glad that I bought and sold VMWare stock - more than 75% gain in a few days :-)

[Andy Hall]

Don't you believe it.

There's loads of freeware for OS/X

If not, virtualise. It's the way of the future.

[Andy Hall]

Indeed.

There's bucket loads of stuff for OS/X and generally good quality as well.

[Andy Hall]

There you are you see. Should have bought a Mac.

You know it's the way forward.......

[Stuart Noble]

Do you ever stop bragging? We're all aware of your possessions and achievements. Just give it a rest please

[Bob Eager]

Technically, it's not, of course. Neither is FreeBSD.

I'd rather run real FreeBSD; a lot cheaper, and I don't have to get involved with Apple.

[Steve Firth]

You're showing signs of lack of observation, again.

The header of TNP's post shows "Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/

20070728)"

[The Natural Philosopher]

I know. I am posting on one as I write.

Application software beyond graphics design would be a start.

Ability to run my scanner and polotter would be an added bounus. This one can't do either.

? so waht ?

Exactly, if thats *all* you need its a nice, if overpriced toy.

Man does not live by bread alone...

Not on a G4 you can't.

This isn't an intel platform ;)

No, it doesn't.

So you can run windows on a mac. Why not just run windows?

[The Natural Philosopher]

The aqua interface is the best part of the mac.

Thats not free.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Sadly none of it did what I wanted..

[meow2222]

:) I just enjoy the brokenness of windows. Occasionally.

NT

[The Natural Philosopher]

Took me 6 hours to install a vurtual windows machine on this mac. ran about like windows 2 did on an 8086.

[meow2222]

Defraggers are for testing hardware. If you have any bad RAM a defrag should screw the fs up royally. That MS defrag doesnt check RAM first is typical of MS.

NT

[The Natural Philosopher]

Oh it probably does defrag, but so what? with enough disk cache ram, it gets less and less relevant,

[Bob Eager]

True...but then I spend a lot of my time using the command line! Started off on UNIX and UNIX-like systems long before GUIs...

[Richard Perkin]

"Bob Eager" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Well, it is. Or more accurately, will be - as and when you get 10.5 (aka Leopard). See: