Comments | brandietarvin: The new laptop (#technology)

brandietarvin

The new laptop (#technology)

Sep 20, 2015 18:05

The new laptop hath arrived. It has all sorts of weird Lenovo ware on it. So I created myself a restore disk, then clicked the Update Drivers thing, which promptly reflashed my BIOS. Then I ran Windows update and got 124 updates to download and installed. It just finished. Now I get to go through and set up all my power settings, etc. Not to ( Read more... )

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thewayne September 23 2015, 03:38:31 UTC

Duel booting? COOL! I've always wanted to see OS-X and Windows in a deathmatch, though I don't think Windows would stand much of a chance. The secure BSD vs Plan 9 from Bell Labs would also be pretty awesome, though I don't know if anyone uses Plan 9 except as an experimental thing.

I would personally go with VMWare on a PC, and if you end up with a client with a HyperV VM that you need, then install that. But VMWare is a much more mature product and I expect used a lot more in large installations. Personally I use Parallels on my Mac to run Win 7, but I'm going to reevaluate VMWare as I'm being forced to upgrade my copy of Parallels with the new upcoming OS-X release.