[X4U] Vista Home Basic With Parallels

[Tim Collier]

You need to look into something like Wine then.  This add-on allows  
you to run Windows based apps without actually having to run  
Windows.  I really found running Windows under Parallels 'wanting'.   
Now running Windows with Bootcamp runs great.  Try doing a bit more  
searching research on the web.  You'll find that there are a lot of  
other options other than Parallels.
But, what I did say at the end, I meant with all sincerity, sometimes  
just getting an actual PC is the perfect solution (But Never Get Rid  
of Your Mac!!)  The prices for a PC are CHEAP and most (if not all  
now) will come pre-loaded with Vista.  Have you looked at the price  
of an eMachine?  Another thing to remember though, is that sharing  
files between a Mac and PC (despite what Microsoft says, or Apple) is  
not simple.  With all the crappy AV software you have to run on the  
PC, it's practically impossible to do.  I do speak from experience  
here.  My wife has a laptop PC (now running Vista Business Edition)  
and since it's protected by Norton, you can't even get past the  
stupid thing.  The only way we've successfully shared files is by  
burning a CD.
OK, I didn't mean for this reply to go on so long, but another  
example:  I have Vista Home Ultimate on the Mac Pro with McAffee AV  
running on it and IT can't even network with the one running Norton.
It's been years since I seriously used a PC but how the average PC  
user shares files is beyond this simple Mac user.
Mac networking is easy, PC networking is not....or at least not to me.
Finally, I just mention this to illustrate my point above, before I  
switched over to the Mac, I was MCSE certified, but I haven't kept up  
with anything since 2000, so too much has changed.  I'll stick to a  
Mac, thank you.

Tim
On May 2, 2007, at 7:33 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:

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> On May 2, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Tim Collier wrote:
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>> If you're that desperate, just buy a PC.
>
> That really isn't a logical, or helpful, answer, Tim.
>
> I happen to have a recent Intel-based Macintosh.  I need to run  
> just one Windows application.  Running Windows on my Mac using  
> virtualization is a perfectly reasonable and economical solution  
> for this.  Purchasing a PC to run one application is  not.
>
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