On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Bill Chapman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Christian, thanks for the info... I'm really excited about having win on
> my mac altho I'm a die-hard machead... I need win to test my website
> designs in ie 6-7 (somebody kill those, please!... oh, wait... ie 8 and
> win 7 are on that case) on xp, although browsershots.org is really
> helpful, to a point... the ms learning curve will seem less intimidating
> if it's sandboxed in my mac backyard... i do have some experience in xp
> though.
>
I know your pain. I grew up with a Mac on one side (My dad used them
for years in school) and a PC on the other (my Grade school had them,
we had a few, and so I learned the ways of both)
As I grew up, me and the ways of the Mac parted, seeing as we didn't
have the budget to afford anything newer than my PowerMac 6100\66, so
I never got beyond system 7, until this year (where i'm living on my
own and decided to splurge $25 on a pair of used iMacs)
I Designed my first revision of my site using MS's Publisher (what a
nightmare) and it worked about 15% of the time. after switching over
to Kompozer, I had to find ways to test it with other browsers in the
world, where my iMac came in handy. I have Camino and Safari on my
iMac, Opera, IE6,7,8 and a few other odd ones (like sea monkey) on a
VM, and FireFox is the only Browser found on my desktop. (My GF Uses
Chrome, so she tests that out for me.)
I enjoy the ideas of virtulization though. I forgot about MS's VPC for
Mac (Until I checked my Technet, and found that I could gnab a copy
for myself) and I am currently testing the limits of my iMac, by using
pre-loaded XP, and Windows 7 disk images (It will be interesting to
see if a 350mhz PPC can run windows 7 as well as my 3.2ghz DualCore
AMD system)

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