Personally I reccommend paralells or vmware fusion, my setup.
Virtual PC does not work worth a damn after os 9.
I bought an OEM copy of XP when I bought the Mac, less than £100. Not
sure what currency you use. and parallels was cheap.
you can use bootcamp if you like but I prefer within os x. Bootcamp
exposes too much of the insecure OS to the world whereas a virtual
image running within oSX still has some degree of sand-boxing if you
set it up right.
I installed an image of XP SP2 and do not use it. I then copied it as
another instance, loaded AV, spyware and firewall software, all free
and dependable enough, and then use that to tst IE6. I then copied
that and install IE7. I can then run both instances, simultaneously
(get plenty of RAM!) and test both main browsers at once.
If something goes wrong with one of the instances I wipe it, copy the
first "root" instance of XP and start fresh with a virgin instance...
Not bad for less than £150 and a days work setting up and locking it
down!
Joe
On Jan 25 2008, at 06:08, kevin mcmonagle wrote:
Hi,
Whats my cheapest option for getting ie7 to run on my intel based mac.
Is it basically an option between boot camp, parallels or virtual pc?
Very frustrated with discrepancies at the moment.
-best
kevin
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