Using Windows on a Mac isn't much different from running windows on any
PC. The main difference is that those users can move from Bootcamp to
Parallels. Then they will be able to use two or three or four systems
and compare them. The only people who won't like Parallels are dedicated
gamers--they can get a maxed out MacPro tower and run bootcamp, or a
Dell XPS, or an Alien[ware] PC, or build their own.
I don't think there will be much less trouble using Windows on a Mac
than on a PC as long as computer hardware is of comparable quality. It's
Windows on any computer that causes problems, not necessarily the
specific hardware or programs--hence the Darwine project.
Windows is such fun. Today it took over 1/2 hour for Windows to
recognize my laser printer AND print, even though I connected it
directly to the PC, the driver was already installed and it acknowleged
the printer by name as soon as it was connected. Earlier today, the Mac
recognized the same local printer [to a different Mac] immediately, and
printed soon after. I doubt that Windows on a Mac would be any smarter.
Still plug and pray.
Betty
A couple of die-hard Windows users that I know are saying to me that
the next computer they are going to buy will be a Mac. But, their
decision, as one has said, to join the "dark side," is not because
they have any interest at all in running under the Mac environment,
but because they perceive that a computer made by Apple, even running
Windows, will be less troublesome than the PCs that they now have
struggles with.
So, is a Windows user who buys a Mac to run under Windows a Mac user
or still a Windows user? I'd have to say that they will still be
Windows users who have merely bought a Mac instead of a Dell.
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