[dayglored]

> Well, I’ll just drop by once in a while, on my own, so no on the ping list, for right now. And I’ll never be a troll here, disrupting and harassing! I haven’t run Windows on my Mac, but I know it can be done, easily, and done while running the Mac OS as the main system. Of course, the Windows can be run on its own, too. I do have to try and help a couple of relatives with their Windows machines and I feel awkward trying to help them ... although I can usually handle it ...

Okay, ST, that's fine. I look forward to your occasional comments. FWIW, I have two copies of Win7 on my Mac Mini -- one is a VM in VMware Fusion, for running alongside the Mac applications, and the other as BootCamp for when I need to dedicate all the Mini's horsepower to a Windows task.

Some years ago Apple ran an ad campaign about how the best hardware to run Windows on for the money was actually a Mac (a MacBook Pro, I think). It's true.

I find Windows to be wonderfully stable and fast on Mac hardware. Who knew?

At home I'm also running it on my Fujitsu notebook and a few vanilla desktops, and it does well there too.

At work it's mostly rackmount servers, enterprise quality, so of course they're fine...

[Star Traveler]

That’s cool ... I’m glad to hear that!

[Swordmaker]

Okay, ST, that's fine. I look forward to your occasional comments. FWIW, I have two copies of Win7 on my Mac Mini -- one is a VM in VMware Fusion, for running alongside the Mac applications, and the other as BootCamp for when I need to dedicate all the Mini's horsepower to a Windows task.

Is there any reason to have two installs? You can set up the VMware Fusion to link into the BootCamp Windows partition. There are some distinct advantages to having it both ways. . . virtual HD files are easy to replace if they get corrupted with malware. But Windows is hard to get compromised these days. If you need the space, just link the VMWare into the BootCamp Windows partition.

There are multiple reviews in PC magazines where they report that the best Windows computers are Macs both running in BootCamp or in a Virtual Machine.