Oh man I just thought of it. I wonder if I could talk my employer in
to getting me an Intel Imac and letting me have both on my desk and I
can get rid of that piece of garbage HP laptop they gave me. No not
an Imac, a Pro Book that's what I want. The HP laptop is so poorly
built, I can shake it slightly and get the fan and stuff raddling in
there. I even can put just a little pressure on the external cdrom
drive and stop the cd from spining. I found that out by accident
today. grin
Scott
On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:23 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
Well, if you don't have any special software that only runs on
windows, I can see no need to do this. Say, however, that you have
a certain piece of software that you need and it only runs on
Windows and there's no real Mac equivalent to it? Yet, you don't
want two computers around. So you make a small Windows installation
and now you can run that program. I know, it's difficult to
imagine, but it is certainly possible--a proprietary windows
database that must be used for your job, for instance, would fall
under this category.
My only question is will Apple provide a filesystem driver so that
you can access all of your documents on your OS X partition under
Windows? Without this I can see its use being a bit of a pain,
though still doable. I don't have an Intel-based Mac or I'd try it
for the hell of it. But I now have an iron-clad excuse to sell my
Windows PCs for good. Finally! Then get myself a nice iMac.
On Apr 5, 2006, at 5:16 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, as someone who switched from the PC and Windows to the Mac I
am left wondering why I would want to even bother with this.
Sure, there might be a few things I can more easily do on a
Windows based PC that are more difficult on a Mac but this just
sounds dumb to me. I see the point made here that VR agencies and
others might go for this but aren't you making your beautiful Mac
sesuptable to the very problems we are so proud that our Macs are
free of. Viruses, worms and the like. While my Mac is pre-intel
by a month or two, there is no way in hell I would put Windows XP
on one if I had one. Sounds very strange that anyone on this list
would support this. Sure, it was a neat contest to hack the
Windows and Intel Mac system and I'd try it too if I had the
ability and be happy if I walked away with the $13,000 prize that
was out there. But, its been done and so what. I'm just not sure
why you would do this at all.
