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I know this was posted aways back but I'm in the market to replace my biz laptop. My kids love their Macbooks and I hate my HP laptop. The longer you have these things the slower they get.
The Apple people say there is emulation software to run most any windows programs. Plus you can run Windows now on them.
Does anyone have experience with using the Macbook Pro for business?
The Apple people say there is emulation software to run most any windows programs. Plus you can run Windows now on them.
Does anyone have experience with using the Macbook Pro for business?
might as well setup a virtual session of OS/2 as well.. (glory days) :-)
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/smb/
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Apple or a Wintel PC...???
You can use an Apple laptop and run Windows from it - Boot Camp is the Apple utility for this. Pretty standard set up, I see it even at the large s/w company I consult for in Redmond, WA... Boot Camp Link
You can look at other options too from software firms Vmware and Parallels. These firms offer virtualization software making your PC into a multi-dimensional platform.
Personally I use HP and Windows 7 and am quite happy.
It is a personal choice...
Parallels and VMware Fusion - which are emulators and allow you run both OS's side by side simultaneously.
BootCamp - which requires partitioning your hard drive and a reboot when you switch between MacOS and Windows.
None of those options will fix windows. Your machine will still slow down with time as it builds up all the crap and temp files that bog windows down. The macOS on the other hand. Well I reboot my machine every couple of months whether it needs it or not. I don't really notice much of a speed boost from it, but I don't notice it slowing down any either.
As for power, any machine that can handle video editing can scream through any spreadsheet you throw at it. Video editing is far more taxing on a system than any spreadsheet or database application.
EDIT: make the 2x.
I'm a moron and I can use it.
I like that I can use both at same time, I can cut/paste from one to the other and I can even drag and drop files from Mac to PC and PC to Mac.
VMWare fusion quite literally makes Windows an application for your Mac, rather than having Windows as an operating system.
I use windows because of Quickbooks, the Mac version is supposedly crap and I started on a PC with it, so I wanted to keep it PC, so when I need to get to my QB, I launch VMWare, which launches Windows, open QB, close and go back to Mac just as if I was closing any other application.
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No, it isn't
Wife has Win 7 and I have Mac OSX, and it's night and day, and Win is shit and Microsoft just keeps piling more shit onto shit.
My Mac boots and is ready to use in a minute, Win 7, as with all Win versions takes forever to boot, fully load and be ready to work without stammering and stalling because it's still busy booting.
and speaking of stammering and stalling while the OS goes "wait a minute,let me think about this a second," Windows still does it
Mac OSX does not, it operates flawlessly regardless of how many apps/programs you are running at once.
Win is shit, period
But my wife is so used to it, she refuses to change
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My first gen macbook air has a 1.4Ghz processor, 2Gigs of ram and a 128 Gig solid state hard drive and blows away my Dell Latitude E6410 with 3 Gigs of memory and an i7 processor with windows 7.
I believe it is due to the solid state drive as my wifes macbook, with a regular hard drive, is also infinitely slower than my air.
I've had my air for more than a year and it still boots completely in approximately 6 seconds.
I can't imagine a more powerful machine with a solid state
Also have Win 7 at work and it boots quickly as well.
But when I do, like when I take the lappy portable, it boots right away
Hard drive speed will really impact your computers performance these days. All the current processors are pretty damn quick, so it's showing up the other areas of your system where you wouldn't have noticed speed deficiencies before.
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Windows and Mac are very similar but very different if that makes sense. What I mean is that if you know your way around windows then the learning curve is very short for Mac.
However, the Mac operating system is much more polished and friendly yet powerful. It's easy to boot up, easy to get around. I dig it.
My new Macbook air I am just loving it. So light and I just leave it on all the time and close it when not using so it goes to sleep.
I did some video on it the other day and even though it had a slight lag at times it was just fine. If I was doing it on my imac then probably wouldn't have noticed as much lag at times.
I'm a huge apple fan because I've had good experiences with it. The iphone is amazing and I love the apple operating system.
I love the trackpad on the macbook air. You can swipe 4 fingers down and expose all your windows open. You can 2 finger scroll. You can 3 finger swipe left to right to browse through your pics. I also love that if you have 2 or more windows open you can just move the mouse cursor to the other window and scroll without having to click on the window like you do on windows operating system. Also, the system preferences is soooo much more friendly then the freakin windows control panel.
Just the little things like that which make it so much more enjoyable to use.
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