Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-24 Thread Scott Barnes
Late reply - been sick. I use Adobe CC every day and in this situation i'd prefer to keep it in OSX mode than Windows simply because it performs better in a Parallels / OSX dual environment. I will also point out I also have a Thunderbolt Display for when i'm at my cubicle. When on the road I

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-24 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: Late reply - been sick. I use Adobe CC every day and in this situation i'd prefer to keep it in OSX mode than Windows simply because it performs better in a Parallels / OSX dual environment. I will also point out I

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-24 Thread David Connors
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: I will however say that OSX + Cinema4D is much better to work with in a portable situation (again I travel alot for work, so i need to have a portable Ux studio ). Short answer - there is really no + or - in choosing

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-24 Thread Scott Barnes
Not so much in Premier but Adobe After Effects initially... Also if you haven't gone to CC then you should in that case as they've tuned the software much betterer for the RAM renders. I also do 3D rendering (Cinema4D) and it seems to be more efficient for a portable scenario. I do have a

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-24 Thread David Connors
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: I've wondered if it has to do with with prescribed hardware in that with Macs typically software vendors know ahead of time what they are dealing with that have very tightly controlled specifics so i've always wondered

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
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,

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread David Connors
. 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

RE: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread ILT (O)
...@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

RE: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of ILT (O) Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2014 5:54 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro 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

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Stephen Price
. -- 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

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Scott Barnes
. -- 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

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Stephen Price
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

RE: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2014 8:41 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro Not unfair to expect at all. My laptop (Samsung Book 9 Plus) has 13 QHD (3200x1800) screen and a good number of the apps are all kinds of messed up due to not handling scaling right. If you don't

RE: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Adrian Halid
-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2014 5:33 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro I run windows 8 on MacBook Pro daily and no issues .. I use osx for design tools and MacBook for dev work and seamless work. If you run parallels

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread Stephen Price
years old to cater for today's hardware/software. Cheers Ken *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Thursday, 20 March 2014 8:41 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro Not unfair

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread David Connors
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: I run windows 8 on MacBook Pro daily and no issues .. I use osx for design tools and MacBook for dev work and seamless work. If you run parallels that is. If you run it native ie via boot camp again it runs normal as

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

2014-03-20 Thread mike smith
Use Parallels, not Bootcamp - the latter is a dualboot the former something like VMware. Unlike VMware, though, the application windows float in the Mac desktop, not bound to a VMware window inside the host desktop. Once you've done this, you'll wonder why you'd do it any other way. Loading W7