Comments on: Virtualize your Mac? DiscCloud Wants to Put Apple Leopard in the

By: Kurt DeWitt

Kurt DeWitt — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:51:39 +0000

another thing to think about is this. having disccloud running in your office now means one can increase the life of the G4, G5’s in the office. just update these desktop machines to OS X 10.5 and connect them to the disccloud. once you’ve done that, cloudify each user and you’ll see your performance on any G series will improve as most of the computing is now done in the cloud. we’ve got a $300.00 e-machine in our office we bought from walmart. it’s been filled up w/ only 2GB of main memory and we loaded it up w/ 1TB of cheap SATA drives (2). it runs like a champ and we’ve even seen our performance improving versus trying to run our 10 mac clients individually. not to mention the fact that now each client is a non-bloated thin client connected to our “mac cloud”.

By: Disc Cloud

Disc Cloud — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:05:56 +0000

ps - we agree, go buy a Mac (as your client). And IF you want your Macbook Air’s desktop to have 10Terabytes instead of 64GB, and if you want that desktop to be always available, accessible from anywhere, and automatically backed up, access your 10Tera Byte Mac Desktop (with your favorite Mac) in the Cloud. DiscCloud ! Thanks again

By: DiscCloud

DiscCloud — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:01:34 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the write up. DiscCloud is definitely 100% Apple License compliant. It vastly differs in its approach to the “bad guys”. DiscCloud doesn’t not require or even permit Leopard to be installed on non Apple hardware. Rather, it requires that Leopard reside on an Mac Client. The desktop however can be virtualized and reside inside the DiscCloud virtual machine running on a non Mac server. The Apple License components stay safe and sound on Apple Hardware (the Mac client).

Non Mac clients ARE NOT supported.

By: Chris Moran

Chris Moran — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:49:32 +0000

Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you.

Chris Moran