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Re: 27" iMac or upgrade my Mac Pro

by Ashley Aitken :: Rate this Message:

On 07/11/2009, at 6:32 PM, Jared Earle wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Ashley Aitken <mrhatken@...>
> wrote:
> seems quite "silly" (for want of a better word). I can see no
> reason (except "personal issues") for not wanting to have email or
> "other apps" on a machine in the 21st century.
>
> I can see several reasons and know a few people who have a machine
> for the usual stuff and a machine without email for work. It's not
> just the distinction between "family machine" and "work machine" but
> in some cases it's "not even background processes allowed" for video
> or music guys who cannot do with disk hiccoughs during recording.
> Many reasons with little or no cross-over.
>
> I gave up trying to fathom people's reasoning for stuff I didn't
> understand when it came clear to me not everyone thinks like me.

I understand this reasoning but I just think it is wrong with today's
multi-core machines with huge amounts of RAM and disk space. I'm not
going to try to convince anyone, if they want to follow there
reasoning they are more than welcome - more sales for Apple (which is
good for me in the long run).

Cheers,
Ashley.

PS So how would you stop background processes running on OSX?! I
don't believe that would even be practically possible ... Of course,
one could try to make the distinction between user applications (with
GUI etc.) versus daemons and other processes but I think that would
also be inappropriate.

--
Ashley Aitken
Perth, Western Australia
Skype/iChat: MrHatken (GMT + 8hrs!)

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