Responding to several different questions. I have a couple MBP's (13", 15", and 17")... and also a MacPro... all with XP, Vista, or Win 7 (multiple test platforms).
Each MBP and MacPro has Parallels and Team Viewer installed. Parallels will let you run windows software on the Mac. Just about anything that runs on Windows can be run a Mac... including most games... but games are slow (not recommended - plus I don't have time for games). Remember, Parallels interprets Windows... so it may be a little slower in some cases. My systems for strictly business. Each laptop has MS Office Enterprise, CF Server Enterprise, SQL Server Enterprise, Home Site, Cute FTP, and Putty SSH... and all 3 major browsers. I have yet to find anything that doesn't run... except some of the really old win-32 XP stuff that doesn't run in Vista or Win 7 either. I tried Apple Pages... it didn't agree with me. We fought. It lost. Installed Office instead. Try Open Office if you want open source. OO is slowwwwwwwwwwww though. Have not tried Office for Mac... MS will not give us Office Mac... but we get everything that runs on Win boxes. I wouldn't mind trying Office Mac - have considered buying it. Parallels and VMWare will let you open windows applications as if they were mac apps... they can sit side by side. You can watch video via the mac player while also watching a video with windows media player. Parallels installs Windows as "a file" - deleting the file trashed windows... but since it's a file - You can reboot windows through Parallels as if closing MS Office - then reopening it. It's kinda cool. The bad thing is - since it's a file - if the get corrupt - Windows is shot. Hosed. It's happed couple times to me. Sometimes also - the windows license manager messes up - and accuses you of pirating software. MS counts the number of times you enter the key code... so after a while it may not register - and you need to call MS. MS has been decent about this thought - and simply reset the ticker. I've tried VMWare and Virtual Box... prefer Parallels. I also have bootcamp installed - so my MBP's boot to windows instead of OSX. To boot to OSX - press / hold ctrl in boot process... a menu will appear. Mac OS loads and shuts down much faster. There are viruses on the Mac - though not as prevalent. The more popular they become - the prevalent they will be. Biggest difference in OS is - in Windows - each window will have it's own menu bars. In OSX - menus are shared on monitor 1. Clicking an application resets the menus to that application. Ie: selecting a photoshop window - changes the menus to photoshop specific. "Finder" is Macs version of Windows Explorer. Team Viewer will allow you to connect to any computer on your network... ie: transfer files. It's slower than backing up onto a USB drive... but it works well if you just want to set it up to transfer and walk away for a while. As I said (in a different subject)... I haven't opened any of my laptops in a while - since I started got my iPads. Macs are extremely expensive - but if you have the $$$... max the ram out - and buy the memory after market. As for the warranty... don't get the Best Buy thing. Macs have a 1 year warranty from date of registration. You can purchase an extended warranty at any time - as long as you activate the warranty BEFORE the 1 year warranty expires. The extended warranty gives you an additional 2 years of protection. So with the standard and extended warranty in place - you get a total of 3 years. Buy the warranty from ebay... you can save a little money. Right click issue - becomes a CTLR-Click on a Mac. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351559 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
