A Simple Question Really...

[runequester]

emulation can have its advantages:

Its useful for stuff you dont have the hardware for

Saving space

Saving money



I must admit, after getting a 1200 again, I've barely booted up UAE again though.

[runequester]

in the end it also depends on what its going to be used for.

Basic internet tasks, office crap and so on. Modest video card, a pile of ram and a half decent processor.

Hardcore FPS games, you'll want the biggest machine you can afford, which will give you a few years worth of computer.

If its going to run windows, toss in some extra RAM for good measure as vista and 7 will both pretty much sink your machine if you try to do more than one thing at a time.

[runequester]

yeah, for graphics work, I'd definately splurge on the biggest, baddest machine you can get

[runequester]

There are those who insist it's still 1989 and haven't a clue what Windows and OS X have done over the past two decades.

Possibly. I look at my friends computers and see how they run. Not really interested in theoretical performance.

Its a bit sad really. My wife's G4 laptop with 512 megs of ram runs slightly slower, as a friend of mines desktop with vista and 2 gigs of ram.

My desktop came with a vista install and it was crawling with 4 gigs of ram before I wiped it.

7 seems to be better about actually doing stuff, though watching my friend Rubens netbook try to boot with 7 was a painful experience. I guess they are pretty much just giving up on that market and letting Google take it.

The desktops at work are mostly xp, with a few being updated to 7, and again, crawling, though its possible the network setup is whats doing the damage here.
The XP machines arent any better though.


I make it a point of checking out new windows releases, as I know a few people who always stay on top of the upgrade curve.

[runequester]

Ubuntu is simple AND convoluted ?

[runequester]

I think you're telling porkies...

FWIW I run both Ubuntu and Windows in equal amounts.

Benjamin... using Linux since Red Hat 5.2

nah, most of my friends run windows and I know a couple of windows 7 fanboys. We tend to take turns playing "check this cool thing out".

Half of mine is on the amiga though