How to get your computer ready for Mac OS X Lion
Unlike windows?
Windows 7 requires a minimum 1GHZ processor and 1GB of RAM for 32bit, 2GB for 64 bit
Windows XP is even less, a 233MHz processor with 64MB RAM is all you need for that.
You can run Windows comfortably from a variety of chip-sets including Intel and AMD.
On a PC you can build a machine that fits exactly what you need out of it, you don’t need to spend a small fortune for a name and a trendy looking box with an apple logo on it.
To be fair, I am not anti-mac. I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard running on a virtual machine for iOS development purposes. I just wish the hardcore mac fanboys would stop overhyping the mac operating system as some great gift from Jesus or something. If you put a Mac next to a Windows box and both have EQUAL specs, they both run about the same. And there really isn’t anything a Mac can do that a Windows PC cant… As for “Bloatware” OS X comes with its fair share of preinstalled crap as well.
I find that the reason Mac users don’t like Windows so much is because they complain about the performance of Windows compared to Mac OS. What they fail to realize is that there are about 30 million ways to build a PC and some of them (like the ones you might use at work for example) are built on a budget and may not run as well as your mac at home does. This is not a failure on the part of the OS, it is a failure on the part of the hardware that the OS is running on.
So let me get this straight, if I didn’t purchase Snow Leopard (because it was a pretty small upgrade that I felt I didn’t need for what I use my computer for), I will now have to download it before I can upgrade to Lion?
That can’t be right. That sounds pretty shady for Apple.*
I mean, in order to upgrade my OS, you’re telling me I must first purchase an older version then the one I wish to upgrade to?! Has anybody heard of a way around this? Will they offer a free download of SnowLeopard so you can then purchase Lion?
*Apple haters need not reply. I’m really not all that impressed with your “fanboy” insults and when you start making dumb arguments like that, it makes you sound like a pimple-faced, virgin living in your grandma’s basement.
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