Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff, Thanks - I agree, that might be so, and it adds a lot of flexibility and portability, because the truth is that the Mac platform is very limiting on software. Is the Windows emulation good enough to play the current crop of games on the Mac? BTW, I have not got a virus or had a real problem with Windows for a few years now, and never had a problem with Windows Homeserver which I also use for automated backup, and which I find ideal for home applications. I do have to reinstall Windows every year, and use high quality antivirus programmes,etc, as well as do regular automated disk maintenance, but that's about it. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote: > 2009-11-10-21:48:49 Jayanand Govindaraj: > > Brian, > > I would like to understand why would you use Windows on a MAC platform? > What > > is the advantage? > > I'm not Brian (and I don't play him on stage or screen), but I can provide > one > answer to that: > > if you accept that: > > 1) A Mac is a more pleasant and stable day-to-day computer on which to > live > and move and have your being, but > > 2) there's some damned application which for some reason you need to use, > and which for some reason is only available to run on Windows; > > the rest follows. You'd rather not put up with being sentenced to use a > Windows box as your primary desktop computer just because of that damned > proprietary Windows application, and you'd rather not have two separate > computers running. So you live happily on a Mac, and run the > Windows program (atop a copy of Windows, atop a virtualizion framework like > VMware or Parallels, atop MacOS). > > You get to live primarily with MacOS, you get that Windows application or > applications running there (until you can find a suitable replacement and > do > away with the whole silly mess), and there's also a good chance that the > Windows instance on the Mac will be slower to pick up malware because > you're > running a limited set of applications there, and presumably avoiding virus > vectors like IE or Outlook. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >