OT Going Mac? - was RE: [Leica] OT: 2 questions: computer and Spain

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan dimitrov)]

The new OS X v10.5 Leopard will be out at the end of the month. I  
suspect that all the new macs will be loaded with it.
According to the Apple web site, it will "Run Windows XP and Windows  
Vista at native speed on your Mac."
Wait a couple of weeks and then visit an Apple show room.
s.

On Oct 16, 2007, at 7:43 AM, Robert Lilley wrote:

> This is a good thread for me - I have to make decisions about a new  
> computer
> as well.  I have used DOS/Windows/Unix all my computer life - even  
> during my
> long career in graphics and pre-press (more textual publishing than  
> page
> layout and art).  The ad agency types I worked with were fanatical  
> about Mac
> and I always felt it was more of a cult thing as all of the imaging  
> software
> was available on cheaper, more powerful and better networking  
> (appletalk,
> sigh!) Intel platforms.  I have always been a fan of Adobe software  
> - and
> that works on either platform.
>
> However, now that I have decided to go to a "light room" and  
> digital output,
> Crossing over from data manipulation to art, I see the possible  
> need for
> going over to Mac.  Tell me truly; is Mac better wysiwyg than a  
> tweaked,
> color corrected Windows system?  What Mac model should I get - I  
> would be
> using it for just the photo stuff?  At least now I will understand the
> underpinnings - it's basically a derivation of Berkeley Unix from  
> what I
> hear - that shoulda improved the networking!
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+54moggie=embarqmail.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+54moggie=embarqmail.com@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> Brian Reid
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:42 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: 2 questions: computer and Spain
>
>
>> 1.   Anybody on the list running both Windows and OS X on the new  
>> Mac's?
> If so, how do you find it?  Pros and cons?  I'm having to use  
> Windows at
> work and have Mac's at home and need to make some decisions about a  
> new
> laptop.
>
> I am. I run XP Professional and OS X on my Mac laptop. It works  
> really well,
> with two exceptions:
>
> 1. Devices: access to some USB devices is dicey from XP. It can be  
> done, but
> it's not straightforward. An example of where it is a big nuisance is
> syncing a Palm Pilot. There is a new release of Parallels that I  
> haven't yet
> tried; it might have a fix for this problem.
>
> 2. Backups: the Windows disk looks like one giant file in the Mac  
> world, and
> every time you start Windows, even just to look at it, that file  
> changes,
> which means that the entire many-gigabyte file will get backed up.  
> My Mac
> backup program (Retrospect) doesn't know how to look inside the  
> Windows
> virtual disk file and back up only those parts that have changed.  
> This has
> caused me to stop backing up that file, which means that my Windows  
> world is
> not being backed up. Anything that I have in
> Windows that matters I drag to the folder that is shared between  
> Windows and
> Mac OS.
>
>
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