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    #51
    Originally posted by PAH View Post
    Or OSX loaded into a virtual machine.
    Which you could do quite cheaply / easily by buying a bare bones machine and sticking Linux on it first, then free VMWare to put OSX on.
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      #52
      Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
      Which you could do quite cheaply / easily by buying a bare bones machine and sticking Linux on it first, then free VMWare to put OSX on.
      I tried the free VMware on Linux on bare bones machine solution and got terrible performance.

      Not going there again. It was painful.
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        #53
        Originally posted by Sysman View Post
        I tried the free VMware on Linux on bare bones machine solution and got terrible performance.

        Not going there again. It was painful.
        I use it all the time and have never had any problems with it, either running Windows or Linux VM on Linux Mint and on Ubuntu.

        Each to their own
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          #54
          Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
          I use it all the time and have never had any problems with it, either running Windows or Linux VM on Linux Mint and on Ubuntu.

          Each to their own
          I tried with both Ubuntu and Linux Mint as VMware hosts last January, and they both had problems when I started chucking loads of I/O around. The GUI would become unacceptably unresponsive for longish periods. I went back to Windows and VirtualBox at that point.
          Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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