Back to Mac
May. 19th, 2010 08:01 pmA few days ago I booted my iMac back into OS X to check out the new release of Steam and the pile of games I'd previously purchased for Windows which were now available for Mac.
And something I noticed immediately is that the wireless support is much better than it is in Linux or Windows. I strongly suspect that the driver Ubuntu finds for the wireless chipset in this thing is talking 802.11g rather than 802.11n -- it goes from topping out at 1Mbps to 5-6Mbps.
That and the sheer convenience of being able to play a game without having to reboot or fight Wine has seen me leave the machine running OS X again, at least for now.
There's a lot to like in Ubuntu 10.04. I'll keep using it at work, and I'll probably put it on my laptop too. But given the hardware I have and the desire to occasionally fire up a game, the home desktop machine will probably stay running OS X.
And something I noticed immediately is that the wireless support is much better than it is in Linux or Windows. I strongly suspect that the driver Ubuntu finds for the wireless chipset in this thing is talking 802.11g rather than 802.11n -- it goes from topping out at 1Mbps to 5-6Mbps.
That and the sheer convenience of being able to play a game without having to reboot or fight Wine has seen me leave the machine running OS X again, at least for now.
There's a lot to like in Ubuntu 10.04. I'll keep using it at work, and I'll probably put it on my laptop too. But given the hardware I have and the desire to occasionally fire up a game, the home desktop machine will probably stay running OS X.