I had a Mac book pro some years back. 17" top of the line. $4300 worth (and the specs were not fantastic but the best one I could get...) I set it up to dual boot but I rarely booted into Mac OS. Was using VMWare's Fusion to run windows as a VM when I did boot it as a Mac.
My wife poured (accident?) a hot cup of tea onto it, which ran down the lid and filled the perfectly watertight chassis via the hinge at the back. I don't think any leaked out at all. I didn't even cry a bit. It was my perfectly nonchalant reaction to this incident that told me quite loudly that I didn't give a toss about it. Apple were more than happy to repair it for about half of what it cost me (with no Guarantee it would ever be the same). There are some Apple fanbois out there that would have hurt themselves if this had happened to them, I'm sure. :) >From memory it wasn't very hard to dual boot it, or even install Windows replacing the Mac OS. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:53 PM, ILT (O) <il.tho...@outlook.com> wrote: > Mac Pro - $10K? > > I don't know if it's true, but I heard some time back that some developers > had bought *MacBook Pro* for its hardware, removed the Apple OS and > installed Windows 7. Apocryphal? > > I know a 14yo who uses his mother's desktop Mac (one of those things that > has everthing behind its screen) with Parallels - it performed well enough > for the commercial Windows games he's allowed to have, but it took a bit of > stuffing about with DVD drivers as I recall. December 2012. > ------------------------------ > > Ian Thomas > Victoria Park, Western Australia > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Connors > *Sent:* Thursday, March 20, 2014 2:30 PM > > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro > > > > Do you mean Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro - that heniously expensive cylinder > they're releasing? > > > > Apple have a thing called BootCamp that dual boots into Windows, loads all > the right drivers and so on. > > > David Connors > da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 > Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors > Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors > Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors > > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Bill McCarthy < > bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: > > I remember someone on one of these lists was using it day to day. Just > concerned about stability, display drivers etc. > > > |-----Original Message----- > |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- > |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Corneliu I. Tusnea > |Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2014 5:13 PM > |To: ozDotNet > |Subject: Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro > | > |I just saw a MacPro running WindowsXP this morning on the train. If that > works .. > |anything will work :) > | > |As long as you can live with the keyboard and with heaps of missing keys > the rest > |should be ok ... > | > | > |On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Bill McCarthy > |<bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: > | > | > | Hi, > | > | Any of you guys run windows on a mac pro? What is needed ? Any > issues > |? > | > | Thanks > | > | > | > > >
