Windows.. it's like coming home! 3412

Then it is very kind of you two to liven up my humble little thread with your... presence.

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This pre-supposes that I want it to run OS X, too, and that I'm running Vista, that Boot Camp supports Vista.

One of those might even be true. :D

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Expand my possibilities how? I've got a Mac now, so I would have expected to notice this 'expansion' already, but I haven't.

It seems to me that the Mac just plain does less, and does it slower, too.

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They changed real fast!

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Slow. It's about 3 for me here.

IE does this is about 2 seconds.

Of course, loading the page depends on network performance too, so your milage may vary.

That's amazingly bad. My (faster) G4 did this in more like 10 or 15 seconds; perhaps you have more content in iCal though.

WMP11 is a lot slower than WMP10 was to start- annoyingly so- but it's still only 5 seconds or so.

I don't have this so I can't check it.

My numbers were for first-launch. This makes quite a big difference due to disk-caching. You can cut mine in half- sometimes more- because of it.

I think that justifies my claim that app launching is faster on Windows. :D

I don't need to use this workaround on Windows. And 1 second is a prety long time to just open a blank window, but maybe Photoshop is always like that.

Keynote seems to be the same story.

I have no problems once it is running, but it takes awhile to get the thing up at first.

I was expecting instantaneous response. That's what it does for Steve in his demos!

And that's what Windows Desktop Search does, too, for me.

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The Switch does two things: it exagerates this effect, and it also makes the *new* hardware less attractive in the short term.

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Yeah, but you're pretty much stuck with taking iLife, as well, are you not?

Certainly "so you don't have to install it" is not a reasonable justification for *installing* demoware. But they'll use any excuse these days.