One PC switcher’s tale

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Category: Mac OS X
Link: Yet another tedious PC switcher’s tale on a page crammed with adverts. (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20070228131913)
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[thejadedmonkey]

Where's page 2?

[clevin]

Where's page 2?

there isn't a page 2.

[dejo]

Where's page 2?

Last line of the article:
Stay tuned.
:D

[nagromme]

It's not the same old tale, it's a hard-core anti-Mac user being given a Mac AND Windows in the workplace, and given one cheat sheet but no other support, to see if she can--and will--find value on the Mac.

Could be interesting I suppose, but the article is just a pre-announcement. The experiment itself has not yet been recorded.

[Osarkon]

Well that's quite a different approach to it, I'll admit I'm interested to see where this goes.:cool:

[From Win to Mac]

that's a bookmark

[Analog Kid]

Why keep Windows captured in a um... window? Just to create enough of a nuisance that she'll want to use native apps in order to use the full screen?

A few people where I work have started doing the same thing-- once they're convinced they're not risking anything they've bought MacBook Pros and loaded Windows. So far I'm getting the feeling that most of that is "Windows at work, iPhoto for pictures of the kids" but we'll see if that changes.

[nagromme]

I think the reason for Windows-in-a-window (maximized size hopefully) is to make it easy to use either or both OS's at any time.

Dual-booting would suck for me for instance--then I can't use Windows and Mac apps TOGETHER. Virtualization is better--and when/if 3D support is added, it might be enough for me to add Vista to my Mac for testing purposes and racing games (though those are starting to trickle onto the Mac).

[OhEsTen]

...it might be enough for me to add Vista to my Mac for testing purposes and racing games (though those are starting to trickle onto the Mac).

Speaking of which - I hear that Colin McRae Rally 2005 will FINALLY be coming to the Mac in Q1 of 2010. Of course it will have to be re-written to run natively in OS 12 - but it sure will fly on the 16 Core Mac Mini!

/Disgruntled murmuring.

[Analog Kid]

I think the reason for Windows-in-a-window (maximized size hopefully) is to make it easy to use either or both OS's at any time.

Dual-booting would suck for me for instance--then I can't use Windows and Mac apps TOGETHER. Virtualization is better--and when/if 3D support is added, it might be enough for me to add Vista to my Mac for testing purposes and racing games (though those are starting to trickle onto the Mac).
But Parallels allows you to run both OSs side by side:
http://www.parallels.com/products/coherence/

Haven't watched the video, but you can have both the Dock and the Start bar visible simultaneously.

[pilotError]

This is like one of those old Bad Coffee Commercials...

"We've switch her regular coffee for new MacPro and Parallels... Lets see if she notices"...

[nagromme]

But Parallels allows you to run both OSs side by side:
http://www.parallels.com/products/coherence/

Haven't watched the video, but you can have both the Dock and the Start bar visible simultaneously.

Right--that's exactly what I mean. Virtualization all the way :)

No wonder MS wants to artificially make it harder to virtualize Vista without paying more.

[plinden]

Her computer, she says, is a tool, not a toy
Funny how often this is said in the same breath as "you can't play games on a Mac"