Mac OSx Leopard VM running on my IBM T61 with Vista

have been giving alot of thought lately to moving to a Mac as a primary development platform, leaving behind my 12+ year associated with Windows and even my more recent Linux influx. I think the best ever Windows go to with XP..Vista has yet to impress, and maybe finding this as an excuse I decided to play around with the MAC OS, without standing for hours at an Apple store with someone store guy bugging me. After a few days of tinkering, here is the result: Using pcwiz’s VM release, I have a fully operational Leopard VM running on my Windows Vista laptop. (Yes, Leopard VM ON Vista, not XP/Vista ON a Macbook)

This works well if you want to demo/play with the OS but is slow and you will not get any of the performance benefits of a real Mac. I did this to see if the usability is as credible as the hype says it is.

disclaimers : This is a test I did for educational purposes only. Buy a Mac OS Leopard license , or a Mac box if you plan to use a similar technique for daily work in a commercial environment.

Windows XP to stay on…

Despite what the high-ups at MS may want, MS users have made it clear : We still want XP.  Hence, Microsoft will keep an OEM option to customers so that they can get Windows XP when they buy a new machine, well beyond the original deadline to June 30th 2008. So if you want to stick to a legal copy of XP , then get it NOW….

Smart move by MS. Give customers what they want, Vista has nice bells and whistes, but not enough to make me move. I had to get it cause my IBM T61 came with it…so now…

I have Vista. You dont want Vista. You want XP..if you’re going to hang on to Windows..and I need to move to a Mac !

Good morning and…

Thank you for the post , Seth Godin. Here’s his post that made my morning:

“

Waiting until the last minute

In a nutshell: don’t.

Bad situations to wait until the last minute:

• Catching a transcontinental flight
• Asking your secret crush to the prom
• Applying for a summer internship
• Setting customer expectations
• Studying for the SATs
• Saving for retirement
• Giving up smoking
• Asking for a raise
• Teaching ethical behavior to your kids
• Winning a primary
• Asking for directions
• Sharing an idea

And, for balance, two times when it pays:

• Bidding in an eBay auction
• Giving up hope

“

Firefox 3 Beta fixes the memory hog problem.

I love Firefox. I really do. It has its issues, just like your iPhone or laptop. But you love your iPhone despite its issues. But then again, your iPhone doesnt eat up 600mb of memory to show you 6 websites. Which firefox does, or used to do shall I say. After I installed the beta release of FF3, the first thing I noticed was that the memory hog issues were -gone-.