Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/10

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Subject: [Leica] Windows on a Mac...
From: rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:49:23 +0800
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I'm running Parallels and XP Pro on my new MacBook Pro laptop and it
seems to work ok for my limited needs.  I am a Mac newbie however so
take that fwiw.  I see Parallels have just released a new version and
I will likely wait for bug fixes to it before I upgrade, just because
that's what I learned to do with Windows programs.

--Bob

==On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Steve Barbour
<steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Brian Reid wrote:
>
>>
>>> Brian had said in the past that he preferred VMWare.
>>
>> I've used both. I actually preferred Parallels, but I ran into some 
>> nagging bugs that I couldn't get their customer service people to help me 
>> with. I switched to VMware, which didn't have those bugs (presumably it 
>> has others), and it has worked perfectly. I was astonished to discover 
>> that VMware could use the virtual machine files that were created and 
>> left behind by Parallels.
>>
>> I find that using a Windows system on a Mac is not a compromise or a 
>> kludge or a workaround. It's real, it works well, and it's perfectly OK 
>> to plan on using it in the long term. That surprised me, as I expected it 
>> to be all of those things (compromise, kludge, workaround).
>
> so what is the current single best solution to run Windows on an Intel 
> Mac, either ?iMac or MacBook Pro ??
>
>
> what third party solution and what Windows system...?
>
>
> thanks,
>
>
>
> Steve
>>
>>
>>
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