Sticking with OS X on a Mac
22.05.12
Sticking with OS X on a Mac
Posted on 23 Feb 2012 at 11:12
Bought a new Mac, but not sure whether to stick with OS X or install Windows? Let us help you decide
It’s a perfectly reasonable course of action to forget about Windows altogether on your Mac, and persist with the preinstalled OS X. Indeed, many Mac enthusiasts would insist that it’s the only reasonable course of action.
There are several good reasons to stick solely with OS X. The Apple operating system is much better tuned to the bespoke Mac hardware than Windows, a fact readily revealed by our battery benchmarks, where OS X delivers around 1hr 30mins more of light use on the 13in MacBook Air than Windows 7 does. Touchpad gestures and the layout of the Mac keyboard – complete with dedicated buttons for features such as Launchpad and Mission Control – have also been tailored specifically for OS X.
Dual-booting from Boot Camp or installing Windows in a virtual machine will take up a sizeable quantity of disk space, which isn’t a small consideration when the hard disks on the base model of the 11in MacBook Air start at a meagre 64GB. Although it’s possible to boot Windows from an attached Thunderbolt-equipped drive, currently this is a ferociously expensive option.
Source: PC Pro