miinxfree wrote: > I have a new job these days & am being asked (read: forced) at work to > get a Mac. My only concern with this is that I don't want to lose > PowerPro! I still use it for pretty much everything. > > I am wondering about the possibility of using BootCamp to boot into > Windows, & running PowerPro in that. > > Has anyone successfully (or otherwise) done this? Any experiences or > tips on getting that working, if it doesn't immediately?
As a matter of fact I have, I setup up a MacBook for a friend, with BootCamp and WinXP Pro and PowerPro. It works fine, but since it isn't my laptop I can't tell if there are any fine-grained gotchas with PowerPro. I would probably investigate more the keyboard modifiers for hotkeys and keytrap. Even with BootCamp loaded, the Mac keyboard isn't quite like a PC keyboard. I like BootCamp, it gives you a 99% PC on a Mac with no hassles, but I was stung when it went from beta to production because the production version forces you to reinstall the OS, which means a forced OS upgrade, which - understandably - my friend didn't want to do. So now he's stuck with old BootCamp drivers and some issues with them. I don't think this is your case, though, since you're getting a new Mac.
