OT: PSA Windows 8 Pro this weekend $40 at Staples

[Coronita]

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….

[spdrun]

Cool, thx.

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I love that it is still double the price of OS X Mountain Lion.

[Coronita]

[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)

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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!!!”

[Coronita]

[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.

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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.

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Dupe.

[Coronita]

[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.

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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.

[an]

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.

[fsbo]

you can upgrade to Win 8 Pro at $15.

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

[outtamojo]

you can get media center key for free http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/feature-packs

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