Best laid plans of PCs and MACs

[RogerS]

Oh rats. Expletive deleted.

My long term plan was to divest myself of all my various PCs and laptops and to solely use the Mac. Especially as the latest ones can run Windows and there are some programs that only run on Windows (like Cutlist IIRC).

So I bought ByronBlacks immaculate secondhand MacBook intending to load up my XP Professional software and then to load up Service Pack 2 etc. etc.

Sods Law strikes again. Reading the small print, for whatever reason I can only install a version of XP that already has Service Pack 2 installed which is a real b***er. Looking at the exorbitant price for a new copy (£228) there is no way I'm going to shell out for that again.

Dammit.

Anyone know if Parallels is as fussy?

 

[Chris Knight]

IIRC, Parallels has no such restriction.

 

[ByronBlack]

Parallels is OK but it will not use the hardware graphics acceleration, so if you require anything graphic intensive you are better to use bootcamp. Roger, for what it' worth, i did have a duel-boot setup on the macbook and it worked like charm.

 

[brianhabby]

Hi there

What is/are Parellels anyone?

regards

Brian

 

[RogerS]

http://www.parallels.com/

 

[CHJ]

Roger, what you need to do if you have an earlier legal copy of XP is make yourself a slipstreamed disc incorporating sp2.

This will then give you the appropriate update software to retrieve the later updates and communicate with MS license checking.

Do a google for several methods of doing this, but one link is here.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/wi ... stream.asp

 

[brianhabby]

Thanks Roger

regards

Brian

 

[RogerS]

Thanks Chas. Looks like the way forward.

 

[mailee]

Excuse the ignorance Roger but why don't you just get a PC and use Windows instead of the Mac?

 

[CHJ]

Perhaps it's because they don't look so pretty.

 

[RogerS]

Excuse the ignorance Roger but why don't you just get a PC and use Windows instead of the Mac?

Is there a wink missing, Mailee?

 

[jaymar]

Roger, if you have a computer trade wharehouse near you it is possible to buy XP for a little over £60 as long as you buy some other hardware with it(Cheap mouse etc)
P.S Just done a speelcheck on this and it suggested whorehouse instead of wharehouse.

 

[Steve Maskery]

P.S Just done a speelcheck on this and it suggested whorehouse instead of wharehouse.

S

 

[Terry Smart]

P.S Just done a speelcheck on this and it suggested whorehouse instead of wharehouse.

Which I agree is funny, don't you just love'em, but to be fair it's closer than the word you meant which would have been 'warehouse'!

 

[mailee]

Is there a wink missing, Mailee?

No wink missing Roger just puzzled as to why it must be a Mac? Surely most people use a PC. :?:

 

[mr]

Mailee I'll hold yer coat

Cheers Mike

 

[ByronBlack]

Lets not go down the PC v Mac argument, it's as old and boring as Ez v Festool.

 

[mailee]

No, No, I don't want a fight, honest. :shock: I think I must have missed something here. I genuinely have no idea what the Macs do that PC's don't or vice versa. To me it seems strange that people use the Mac if there isn't that much software to use on it?? :?

 

[Smudger]

That old one again!

It's about personal style, leave it at that!

 

[RogerS]

No, No, I don't want a fight, honest. :shock: I think I must have missed something here. I genuinely have no idea what the Macs do that PC's don't or vice versa. To me it seems strange that people use the Mac if there isn't that much software to use on it?? :?

There's lots of software for it. Just that occasionally there are some very specific pieces of software that have only been written for the PC. That and the wretched broadcasters who seem to be acolytes of Bill Gates and insist on only using Windows Digital Rights management (DRM) so precluding Mac users from being able to download TV programmes.

But I'd rather have a Mac any day. Nice to boot up quickly and effortlessly and not wait while "WebSweeper/AVG/Zone Alarm/norton/ McAfee/ or any other of the zillion of defensive programs needed to keep your PC out of harms way" are loaded and/or updated. That's just one reason among many others.

Take a peek at the Leopard Guided Tour and see what you're missing out there in PC-land



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