Girl With Her Very First Mac - and software questions

[Neil321]

Anyone have a virtual PC suggestion for MAC? Don't want to spend a dime if I don't have to but will if I need to. I have to run several virtuals for work.

Fusion

http://www.vmware.com/

or

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/

 

[Whorehay]

Anyone have a virtual PC suggestion for MAC? Don't want to spend a dime if I don't have to but will if I need to. I have to run several virtuals for work.

I have used VMWare Fusion and Boot Camp and for most tasks, VMWare is better since you can just open it in your Mac environment. Boot Camp is there for my stints of gaming.

 

[ansella]

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Well congratulations, young lady.

Remember to change your signature when it comes in!

As for your iWork question, you can export your iWork projects to Office-compatible types. There are a myriad of export options. If you find that iWork isn't working for your specific situation, download NeoOffice. It's open source (free) and compatible with the M$ Office suite.

Thanks for the reminder!

 

[ansella]

Vm

Thanks for all the VM suggestions!

 

[riscy]

Because you have a choice of screens on bootup, so you can choose which one you want when you start up. It defaults to MacOS and you can set the time limit.

Question whats the diff between bootpicker or just choosing your start up disk
in OS X or Windows?

 

[leechlife]

Fusion

http://www.vmware.com/

or

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/

I would suggest VMware Fusion. It's significantly faster than parallels

It has the nice feature, that it can run a bootcamp installation as a virtual machine with OsX.

That gives u the best flexibility, either start a win direct and fast or run it from osX in vmware.
(and fusion runs other os as well very nicely, beside win).

 

[skiffx]

I would suggest VMware Fusion. It's significantly faster than parallels

It has the nice feature, that it can run a bootcamp installation as a virtual machine with OsX.

That gives u the best flexibility, either start a win direct and fast or run it from osX in vmware.
(and fusion runs other os as well very nicely, beside win).

wasnt it that parallels is better for XP and fusion is faster for vista?

 

[Neil321]

I would suggest VMware Fusion. It's significantly faster than parallels

It has the nice feature, that it can run a bootcamp installation as a virtual machine with OsX.

That gives u the best flexibility, either start a win direct and fast or run it from osX in vmware.
(and fusion runs other os as well very nicely, beside win).

Thanks but i was answering a question,not looking for a answer,ive had fusion
installed for god knows how long now

 

[glitchu1]

I didn't want to start my own thread for this but I felt like posting it.

I Just ordered my first mac Can't wait for it to arrive. It's just the base model but still

 

[Neil321]

I didn't want to start my own thread for this but I felt like posting it.

I Just ordered my first mac Can't wait for it to arrive. It's just the base model but still

Does'nt matter what model it is,as you made the right move,hope you enjoy it

And welcome to a great community

 

[glitchu1]

Does'nt matter what model it is,as you made the right move,hope you enjoy it

And welcome to a great community

Thanks, I've always felt slightly ashamed to call myself a designer and not own a mac....but not anymore

 

[Charzipan]

Thanks for posting this. I'm soon to be a girl with her first mac as well and this thread will be great to come back to when it arrives.

 

[Neil321]

Thanks, I've always felt slightly ashamed to call myself a designer and not own a mac....but not anymore

Your welcome,i know the feeling i work for a college full time but dabble in
webdesign, before i switched ( about a year or so ago ) i had a old hp pavillion
and was ashamed to show clients webpages etc,things look so much better on a Mac
and more professional

 

[IC3D]

Congrats! Apple care is ALWAYS worth the money.