<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:36 PM, William Robinson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The new MacBooks (which come with a special student price) can run windows and Naturally Speaking, without giving up the MacOSX environment.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Let's be careful here - the new Macs will run Windows but you will have to buy Windows ($80 to $300 depending on features) and currently you _will_ loose the Mac OS X environment while you're running windows because it can only run one or the other. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are rumors of a more integrated environment coming sometime (maybe Leopard - whenever that comes out) but to my knowledge anyway Apple has made no announcements or promises in this regard. The current implementation is officially "Not Supported" by Apple and while it does work you can get into some situations where the solution is not simple.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Frank</DIV></BODY></HTML>