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  • October 27, 2012 at 11:17 AM #20223
    Coronita
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    Not sure if how good it’s gonna be..But at $40, what the hell…

    Gonna try to install it on a Mac Mini quad core server to replace Vista. 🙂

    Here’s the attached coupon….

    October 27, 2012 at 11:25 AM #753289
    spdrun
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    Cool, thx.

    October 27, 2012 at 11:44 AM #753291
    blahblahblah
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    I love that it is still double the price of OS X Mountain Lion.

    October 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM #753292
    Coronita
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    [quote=CONCHO]I love that it is still double the price of OS X Mountain Lion.[/quote]

    The upgrade from snow leopard to lion is $20 for all your machines running snow leopard… But if you have an older machine, they force you to upgrade to snow leopard first, I believe that’s for $60 per machine.

    Honestly, I have a triple boot Mac Mini Server that does OSX Lion Server, Ubuntu 12.04, and Windows Vista (well the windows vista also can be booted virtualized with VirtualBox)….I honestly don’t use the OSX at all, except on the rare occasion i need to write someone for an iPhone app…The Vista is used because in practice there’s some software that doesn’t run on ubuntu…Other than that, I can do pretty much everything else in Ubuntu + work related stuff.

    Can’t beat the $0.00 upgrade cost of Ubuntu (though you have to tolerate a lot of quirks with it)

    October 27, 2012 at 12:36 PM #753294
    blahblahblah
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    [quote=flu]
    Honestly, I have a triple boot Mac Mini Server that does OSX Lion Server, Ubuntu 12.04, and Windows Vista (well the windows vista also can be booted virtualized with VirtualBox)….I honestly don’t use the OSX at all, except on the rare occasion i need to write someone for an iPhone app…The Vista is used because in practice there’s some software that doesn’t run on ubuntu…Other than that, I can do pretty much everything else in Ubuntu + work related stuff.

    Can’t beat the $0.00 upgrade cost of Ubuntu (though you have to tolerate a lot of quirks with it)[/quote]

    Triple boot? Man that’s what VMWare is for! Who has time for booting these days? 🙂

    I am always afraid to upgrade Ubuntu because the user interface changes so radically every time I do. “Wait, where did the terminal app go? Why did I do this?! ARRRRRRGGHGGHGHGH!!!”

    October 27, 2012 at 1:19 PM #753296
    Coronita
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    [quote=CONCHO][quote=flu]
    Honestly, I have a triple boot Mac Mini Server that does OSX Lion Server, Ubuntu 12.04, and Windows Vista (well the windows vista also can be booted virtualized with VirtualBox)….I honestly don’t use the OSX at all, except on the rare occasion i need to write someone for an iPhone app…The Vista is used because in practice there’s some software that doesn’t run on ubuntu…Other than that, I can do pretty much everything else in Ubuntu + work related stuff.

    Can’t beat the $0.00 upgrade cost of Ubuntu (though you have to tolerate a lot of quirks with it)[/quote]

    Triple boot? Man that’s what VMWare is for! Who has time for booting these days? 🙂

    I am always afraid to upgrade Ubuntu because the user interface changes so radically every time I do. “Wait, where did the terminal app go? Why did I do this?! ARRRRRRGGHGGHGHGH!!!”[/quote]

    You can’t compile android o/s on a virtualized system and expect to finish under 45 minutes, even if you are using SSD’s….It will be closer to 3 hrs.

    October 27, 2012 at 2:05 PM #753301
    blahblahblah
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    Dude you really need to try VMWare Fusion on OS X, you will be amazed at how fast it goes. Not 100% as fast as native but very close, I would guess 90%. The instructions are all native since it’s Intel. The time saved not having to reboot the host will more than make up the difference.

    Also you shouldn’t have to build the whole Android system that often. It does take forever to build though.

    October 27, 2012 at 2:05 PM #753300
    blahblahblah
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    Dupe.

    October 27, 2012 at 2:15 PM #753302
    Coronita
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    [quote=CONCHO]Dude you really need to try VMWare Fusion on OS X, you will be amazed at how fast it goes. Not 100% as fast as native but very close, I would guess 90%. The instructions are all native since it’s Intel. The time saved not having to reboot the host will more than make up the difference.

    Also you shouldn’t have to build the whole Android system that often. It does take forever to build though.[/quote]

    I rebuild every version of android system probably 4-5 times a day.

    I am running virtualization using VirtualBox, but performance pails in comparison to native. So ubuntu has to be native.

    October 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM #753306
    blahblahblah
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    Make sure you have your BIOS set correctly for virtualbox:

    http://blog.darwin-it.nl/2012/04/bios-settings-for-virtualbox.html

    Otherwise things slooooooww waaaaaay doooooown.

    VMWare Fusion on a Mac OS X host performs much better than virtualbox in my experience. But yeah if you are building full Android that often you need every second, even a 10% hit will be too much.

    October 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM #753308
    an
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    Windows 8 rocks. With my 4 years old laptop with a slow regular hdd, it still boot in 25 seconds from a cold boot. It brought new life to old hardware.

    October 27, 2012 at 10:03 PM #753316
    fsbo
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    you can upgrade to Win 8 Pro at $15.

    https://windowsupgradeoffer.com/en-US/

    October 27, 2012 at 11:33 PM #753317
    outtamojo
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    you can get media center key for free http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/feature-packs

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