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Subject: [Leica] Windows on a Mac...
From: pjleeson at mchsi.com (Philip Leeson)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:04:29 -0600
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Parallels 5 and Windows XP

If you need to switch back and forth a lot, as I do in the office, I'd use 
the virtual machine programs; I have several years experience with 
Parallels and find the current version (when running Snow Leopard) to be 
very fast.

If you just want one system at a time, Boot Camp is fine and runs well.

I personally haven't gone newer than Windows XP and would wait a while on 
Windows 7.
No way would I use Vista, as XP does all I need with fewer glitches.

Phil 

On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Steve Barbour 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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