Posts by JammieDodger

Dog bites man: Apple's Macs trounce all Windows PCs in customer love

Mavericks will not spike the Mac Uptake, because...

There is no question that the Apple hardware is nice, the MacBook Pro and Air are really nice machines, and at couple of the companies I have worked with recently I have noticed a massive uptake in Apple laptops, mainly the Air because of its size, weight and battery life. Strangely, when you walk round the other side of desk and see the screen 90%+ have ditched OSX and have put Win7 on, not IT enforced, but by personal choice because they find it easier to work with.

I have also tried to move to OSX for work but also found it nowhere near as productive (and, yes - I did try it for 3 weeks to get over the learning curve), having said that, I did by a mac air for home use and in that scenario find it great for web/email/music/dvd/photos etc

It would be interesting to know how many of the Apple laptops sold are still actually using OSX.

Valve: Games run FASTER on Linux than Windows

Am I missing something...

Why has valve got its knickers in a twist about the Windows Apps Store? Surely their marketplace content could just be accessed via a FREE downloadable app which connects to their own marketplace? (ok, they may have to pay to get the app into the store??) The app store is a delivery mechanism, in the same way that a company that makes CRM can make their CRM client FREE in the app store, and then you pay for the web based services at the ISV end which MS wont be taking a cut of when they signup.... maybe I am missing something key about the app store here.

The whole linux thing is great in the context of bringing more stuff to more platforms which can only benefit us all, but I cant help feeling that this is being blown out of serious proportion joining the W8 Haters Club to simply get some visibilty in the press for them. I am not a PC gamer and hadnt actually heared of them until this story!!

Also, where are the stats of running their game on W8, especially since it is supposed to have many performance improvements over W7, including graphics enhancements!

Windows 8: Half million previews downloaded in 24 hours

if you are using VirtualBox...

I had the same problem with trying to get it running in VirtualBox... if you go into system settings for the VM and enable IO APIC, that did the trick for me