As Don said, dual booting is exactly what you need if you need access to the hardware. In my case, I use it for gaming (although now that Steam runs on a Mac, I'll have less need to boot into Windows - yay!).
Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com ~ granneman.tel Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books "I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am." ---Samuel Johnson On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]> wrote: >> My $0.02. >> >> Nathan is right on, so I'm just gonna add a few things. >> >> The 17" is really, really big. And heavy. If you're actually moving >> around with that laptop, I would strongly urge you to look at the 15". >> If the laptop is going to sit tight most of the time, then fine. > > Agree with previous statements. > > As a former user of a 17" G4 PowerBook I can attest that they are less > laptop and more portable desktop. If I were to own a Mac again, I > would do something similar as Scott and Jans. For my use that would > mean going with the smallest laptop that I can use comfortably for > travel and then hooking it up to a larger monitor, keyboard, and mouse > when at a desk. That's what I currently do with my EeePC netbook. > > As for dual-booting, skip it. Run OS X and go virtual with VBox (my > preference because the virtual drives work across OSes.) > > Other than Macs are really nice machines, why are you considering getting a > Mac? > > Regards, > - Robert > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
