There's not a whole lot stopping Mac OS X from running on IA32, other than Apple not wanting it to happen. Darwin, the open source part of Mac OS X has been ported, and will compile and run on IA32 hardware, but it's a lot of effort for not a whole lot of gain. (If I wanted a *nix on IA32 hardware I'd just use Linux or a normal BSD.)
For fairness, with that comparison, you should probably use a 600ish MHz P2 - that was closer to the competition at the time.
On my 700MHz G4, with 512MB of RAM, I have two users logged in at once, each with various applications open (Safari, Mail, Terminal for me, sometimes iTunes, often Xjournal, sometimes E opens up The Sims or iMovie, sometimes more stuff) /at once/. That's two instances of Safari, or Mail, or Xjournal, sometimes two of iTunes, running at once. And it all functions fairly well - it handles the extra fairly gracefully, and doesn't choke to death often - in fact, it's only choked to death once in the last three weeks, and that was when we both had many things open.
Not that I won't be happy once we've each got our own machines, of course.
Oh, and having X11 as standard is nice, too. For fairness, you should install CGYwin (or whatever it's call) on that PC, too, since Mac OS X also has all the command-line fun.
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Date: 2004-06-09 08:09 pm (UTC)For fairness, with that comparison, you should probably use a 600ish MHz P2 - that was closer to the competition at the time.
On my 700MHz G4, with 512MB of RAM, I have two users logged in at once, each with various applications open (Safari, Mail, Terminal for me, sometimes iTunes, often Xjournal, sometimes E opens up The Sims or iMovie, sometimes more stuff) /at once/. That's two instances of Safari, or Mail, or Xjournal, sometimes two of iTunes, running at once. And it all functions fairly well - it handles the extra fairly gracefully, and doesn't choke to death often - in fact, it's only choked to death once in the last three weeks, and that was when we both had many things open.
Not that I won't be happy once we've each got our own machines, of course.
Oh, and having X11 as standard is nice, too. For fairness, you should install CGYwin (or whatever it's call) on that PC, too, since Mac OS X also has all the command-line fun.