Jonathan, Cooler yet, won't have to give money to Redmond and that I like. I hope this works, it would be a real benefit Apple with schools and other multi-platform organizations to opt for just one piece of hardware.
John R. On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > And then there are the programs that are being developed that will > run Windows apps without Windows. Not THAT'S Nirvana, except of > course they're still Windows apps. > > <http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/06/30/crossover/index.php> > > ::-) > > j. > > > On Aug 3, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Profile <profile at aye.net> wrote: > >> Thanks Lee, this is too cool, I am so glad to know this!!! >> >> John R. >> >> >> >> On Aug 3, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Lee Larson wrote: >> >>> On Aug 3, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Beth Phillips wrote: >>> >>>> We are looking at possibly purchasing some Macbooks with >>>> Windows pre-installed. In looking at these I'm seeing where the >>>> Boot Camp Beta that would be installed with these Macs is "time- >>>> limited software". So what exactly is the time-limit? Will it >>>> work until the new Mac OS with the full blown version of Boot >>>> Camp is released? I'd hate to go through all the trouble of >>>> setting these up and then not being able to do anything with >>>> the Windows side when the beta expires. >>> >>> I've used both Boot Camp and Parallels and a prefer Parallels >>> for normal applications. It runs any x86 operating system--not >>> just XP-- along side Mac OS X, so there's none of that rebooting >>> to get into XP and it doesn't require a separate Windows >>> partition. Moving data between Windows and Mac OS X is easy, so >>> you don't have those questions about losing data. > > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > jfletch at newmediaconstco.com > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 25 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 25 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
