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There is offline, as opposed to web-based, US tax software for the Mac, but not for businesses.
I stopped at Costco on the way to the airport today, got their Surface Pro 9 bundle (on sale, and I had couple hundred cash back from their CC that's about to expire). Swapped the SSD to 1TB in the parking lot, was afraid TSA will confiscate my screwdrivers. Reinstalled everything on the plane, now downloading the rest from the cloud. This is just to run x86 VMs, which I can't do on my maxed out M1 Max (just paid it off too, was literally 10x more expensive than my first car).
I like that surface, upgrading from 7+.
If you're looking for a deal, Costco has Surface Pro 8, i7/16GB with Signature keyboard and pen for a grand flat. Expires today. Online only.
I like that surface, upgrading from 7+.
If you're looking for a deal, Costco has Surface Pro 8, i7/16GB with Signature keyboard and pen for a grand flat. Expires today. Online only.
That's pretty damn cool. Congrats on your new purchase.
I really like my MBP, but I do think the ability and compatibility of ARM windows in parallels was oversold. My MBP is definitely at a disadvantage compared to my other laptop. It has great battery life, and performance, but if it can't run my apps, then its hard to take with me on my trips.
That's why I'm sticking with the base 13" MBP, as like or loth it much of the world runs on Windows. That and Mac's have become somewhat of a throwaway product. That said the performance & battery life is top tier and the main attaction.
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Sure, if you need to run Windows applications a Mac has never been optimal and is clearly a bad decision now.
If you don't need Windows it's glorious though and I don't see the Windows world getting close anytime soon in terms of performance/power consumption ratio
The 14" I use now NEVER needs to runs it's fans during my work day, unless I push it really hard with a long and expensive compilation or something. It's absolutely amazing and I have never seen this before.
If you don't need Windows it's glorious though and I don't see the Windows world getting close anytime soon in terms of performance/power consumption ratio
The 14" I use now NEVER needs to runs it's fans during my work day, unless I push it really hard with a long and expensive compilation or something. It's absolutely amazing and I have never seen this before.
As I a long time windows user and still have one in the house for my wife, I definitely agree that windows really can't touch the macOS right now if you dont need anything thats windows specific. I have zero desire to go back to windows, I have an xbox series x that shares the desk with my Mac and I just flip over to that when I want to game and the Mac handles everything else I could ever need of it. My wife uses her laptop as a gaming machine as well and just way more bugs and glitches trying to get that to run as smooth as my set up.
Think much of the problems with Windows lies with the user as it's a very open system. I use both macOS, Windows 10 and Linux don't see much if any issue. The Apple Silicon Mac's are more limited, but that will pass in time.
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Ok so this is awkward, I was gifted a Surface Pro 9 😂. not my colour of choice but to be fair the green isn’t bad in person.
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Congrats and while I too am not a green person, it doesn't look bad. You know what else is green? The color of money, that you saved by not buying it, so maybe green will grow on you
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Green, nah.Congrats and while I too am not a green person, it doesn't look bad. You know what else is green? The color of money, that you saved by not buying it, so maybe green will grow on you
LOL, hell of a mouse. I like green so my apologies are upfront, but I still like green.
All in good fun
and is a hell of a mouse.Q-6
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I laughed reading this i'm not going to lie. I'm certainly keeping it i appreciate the fact that i've been brought a new toyCongrats and while I too am not a green person, it doesn't look bad. You know what else is green? The color of money, that you saved by not buying it, so maybe green will grow on you
The green is not my fist choice, but it's actually a really nice colour, it's not in your face bright.Just FYI, 2TB m.2 2230 single sided SSDs are available. Jut upgraded my Surface Pro 9 to 2TB WD SN740, no problems whatsoever (there are some with Gen4x4 drives in Pro 8), just cloned the drive and good to go. Got it from ebay, OEM package, don't see retail versions yet.
My primary computer is a Surface Go 3, I have both Windoes and Android installed on it. So it's both a Windoes laptop and Android tablet. That said, getting two oparing systems to play nice with eatch-other on the same computer can be a challange! I don't recomond it for most people, but this setup suits my needs.
It's all a bit easier to do now with Windows 11 as there is native support for android
ie just install the Amazon AppStore from the Microsoft Store and its all done for you
Only if you want to sideload more APK's as the Amazon Store is not as comprehensive do you need to load a few more bits and make sure the developers setting is on in the settings for windows subsystem for android
How to Use and Sideload Android Apps in Windows 11
All Windows Insider builds can run Android apps.
www.tomshardware.com