> I run windows 8 on MacBook Pro daily and no issues .. I use osx for design > tools and MacBook for dev work and seamless work.
Do you primarily run parallels? What application do you run? VS2013? Any performance issues? Regards Adrian Halid From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2014 5:33 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro I run windows 8 on MacBook Pro daily and no issues .. I use osx for design tools and MacBook for dev work and seamless work. If you run parallels that is. If you run it native ie via boot camp again it runs normal as you would with a PC laptop The old days of issues have long gone and the only frustrating thing I at times notice is display settings for fonts etc aren't retina compliant at times for some apps .. But that's unfair given well nobody expects to run an app for PC under retina display On Thursday, March 20, 2014, Stephen Price <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I had a Mac book pro some years back. 17" top of the line. $4300 worth (and the specs were not fantastic but the best one I could get...) I set it up to dual boot but I rarely booted into Mac OS. Was using VMWare's Fusion to run windows as a VM when I did boot it as a Mac. My wife poured (accident?) a hot cup of tea onto it, which ran down the lid and filled the perfectly watertight chassis via the hinge at the back. I don't think any leaked out at all. I didn't even cry a bit. It was my perfectly nonchalant reaction to this incident that told me quite loudly that I didn't give a toss about it. Apple were more than happy to repair it for about half of what it cost me (with no Guarantee it would ever be the same). There are some Apple fanbois out there that would have hurt themselves if this had happened to them, I'm sure. :) >From memory it wasn't very hard to dual boot it, or even install Windows >replacing the Mac OS. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:53 PM, ILT (O) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Mac Pro - $10K? I don't know if it's true, but I heard some time back that some developers had bought MacBook Pro for its hardware, removed the Apple OS and installed Windows 7. Apocryphal? I know a 14yo who uses his mother's desktop Mac (one of those things that has everthing behind its screen) with Parallels - it performed well enough for the commercial Windows games he's allowed to have, but it took a bit of stuffing about with DVD drivers as I recall. December 2012. ________________________________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 2:30 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro Do you mean Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro - that heniously expensive cylinder they're releasing? Apple have a thing called BootCamp that dual boots into Windows, loads all the right drivers and so on. David Connors [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Bill McCarthy <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I remember someone on one of these lists was using it day to day. Just concerned about stability, display drivers etc. |-----Original Message----- |From: -- --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com
