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To: Crusher138

Well, do you want Wintel or Mac?

If you don’t care, then go with the Mac.

If you need Windows for the development environment, then get the Wintel box.

However, for just an extra $100, you can get W10 home edition and run it as a virtual guest on your Mac box.

With Virtualbox, you can do that seamlessly. In seamless mode, both the Mac and Windows desktops are active at the same time. You can run windows apps on your Mac desktop right next to your Mac apps.


32 posted on 06/08/2016 12:44:10 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Westbrook

I use VMWare Fusion for the same thing.

Fusion actually has three modes:

1. You can run Windows full screen and not see OSX at all
2. You can run Windows in a Window. I use this with dual monitors - I run Windows on one monitor and OSX on the other.
3. You can run Windows in Unity mode. In this mode Windows programs appear as icons in OSX and all of the Windows stuff is in the background.

Peripherals are seamlessly shared between operating systems. You can reconfigure the Windows side to use more or less RAM, more or fewer cores, and even adjust the hard drive space used. I can even drag and drop from one operating system to the other.

I have discovered that Windows runs very fast on Macs. I still need a Windows box to run one specialized t-shirt printer, but we have migrated all of our other computers to Macs with Windows available under Fusion “just in case”.


35 posted on 06/08/2016 2:02:41 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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