Re: [orca-list] installing linux on the mac

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Andy,

Sweet! I like your system specs. However, I do agree that virtual 
machines are usually only good for testing out a new OS, or for people 
who don't want to commit to Linux or whatever they are running in a 
virtual machine. That said, with something like a Mac though its better 
to use a virtual machine, because it is a pain to completely replace Mac 
OS with a different OS like Linux. You can't install firmware updates 
etc without Mac OS being installed on the machine. So its generally not 
a good idea to just remove Mac OS completely. You end up having to 
install Linux in a virtual machine like VMWare, or use Boot Camp to 
create a separate partition etc for Linux.

Cheers!



On 4/29/2012 10:55 AM, Andy B. wrote:
> 2.6GHZ quad clocked at 3.2GHZx4 with 6.5GB of ram, 1TB of disk space, 17
> inch HD widescreen display, HD audio, 2GB of additional graphics memory, and
> 15GB virtual memory... and the thing still runs slow. If I put it on a
> different partition and have it natively installed, it works fine. In fact,
> I used to get crashes from 11.10 because it "went to fast" The only benefit
> to having a VM is for testing unstable code, and for people who do not want
> to commit to linux (or whatever OS).