Robert wrote, re the Registry:
An argument, yes. But there's a counter-argument: better to screw up one, particular INI file than all of them at once. The Mac INI-equivalents (I forget what they're called) are saved in case you want to re-install and go back to your old personalizations. I think that's a feature not a problem. But I concede this is all a priori: I have had little user experience on the Mac.There's an argument for having a central container for that kind of info -- and that's what the Windows Registry is.
Largely, yes. But one directory, with subdirectories, seems better to me than what Windows does: put some parts in Program Files, some parts in Windows\System32, and some parts in . . . you name it.People seem to think that DMG (disk image) bundles and "apps" are somehow different than Windows apps (MSIs etc) -- but if you examine the structure, they're just root directories with a subdirectory hierarchy. Where's the difference? Seems more a matter of perception/presentation than reality.
Fascinating. So I can keep my Thinkpad X61, but VM Workstation, and run Mac software?!Under VMware Workstation, I run Tiger 10.4.8 and Leopard 10.5.2 on several of my Windows boxes -- also, just for the fun of thumbing my nose at Apple's insistence that I use their hardware, I installed Tiger (which is a LOT less resource-hungry than Leopard) as the base OS on a three year old Thinkpad T60 (after wiping Windows). It runs fine.
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