oh my gawd...
I forced/dragged my PC-centric friend to an Apple store, because she lost use of her laptop-(ex-girlfriend took it back,) to skeptically buy a black Intel 2.0 Macbook.
When she saw the handsome black slab of Macbook, and then Garage Band, she had he Credit card out so quick that my head was spinning.
The sales bozo there didnt even know how to operate GB, so just ran demo loops, while trying to push .mac and applecare down her throat.
And I was trying to get a word in edgewise to show her the actual instruments. and mixing board, and how they worked.
So she was impressed, and necessarily so, that XP could run on the system.
I informed her about dual boot vs. the Paralells solution, and she opted for Paralells. I already had a copy of XP Pro from school;
It did flawlessly update to SP 2 and then I had to manually add the 300 other patches and security updates. There should be an SP 3 disc by now.
But most important-I should have waited one more week for WINE. Damn.
THE ONLY THING SHE NEEDS XP FOR IS MSIE 6!
She is a realtor, and the Realtors MLS page is written for XP/MSIE 6 only, which is a MUST for her to use everyday. (Oddly enough, the now defunct CamiTools for Camino, when set to 'fool' other sites into thinking that it was MSIE 6 actually worked-about 90%-of the way in-but she needed the whole 100% that MSIE 6 gave her.) Some Mac emulator called CITRIX, was suggested by the Realtor board..
Had we waited a week. we could have spent $40 (and their great deal, and she wouldnt have had to muck her Mac up with XP-all except for IE.
Damn.
And BEWARE! those guys at PARALLELS are sneaky.
IF you are not paying attention, they have already slyly slippped some kind of "archive forever" service (what a joke!) into your shopping cart, for an extra wad of cash- and YOU have to delete it-I almost passed my attention to delete.
They then charged us 9% Washington state sales tax-even thought they are in Virginia-where we downloaded it directly from.
I asked them via email, what presence they had in Washington state, to justify the tax.
Their claim was that 'Digital River' their e-commerce handler, had a presence in our state, so they could legally charge it.
I call bullsh*t.
I didnt buy it from Digital River in Minnesota-I bought it from them in Virginia. DR is simply their transaction agent
That kind of sneaky disrespect for customers riles me-its a small amount, my friend was already skeptical of even spending $80, let alone- the $88 odd something it came to, but to pull those kind of low crap tricks made me lose all respect for them...
And they are likely telling all their customers the same story, so 6-19% tax multiplied by the hundreds or thousands of customers-it adds up.
It seems to work well enough, but gawd-think of the space we could have saved had we waited for WINE... she could have just downloaded MSIE and maybe Frontpage-although she thought Appleworks was very similar.
Ahhhhhhghhhh!
It's too bad my G4 Powerbook just keeps chugging along.
