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To: Defiant

You might like an MacBook Air or MacBook Pro running Win7 in VM mode.

More and more people are passing on buying a Dell or HP Windows notebook/laptop and buying the Apple laptop to run Windows either natively through BootCamp or via VM in a window on the OSX desktop. Parallels is a good VM manager for Windows on Apple hardware.

A copy of Win7 running in a VM window on OSX is only about 5% ‘slower’ than running Win7 natively on the hardware. Plus, if the Win7 install gets perverted somehow, you can restore it to new in a flash by loading your backup copy of Win7 VM.

It’s all about VM these days. The reason why Hackintoshes are dwindling away is because it’s not much more expensive to get the real Apple hardware compared to a Dell/HP laptop.


19 posted on 10/28/2014 12:23:31 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: The KG9 Kid
I have a MacBook Pro, late 2013. It's the best Windows laptop out there. The HP was just for fun.

It is interesting how much Windows laptops cost when they try to match Apple for hardware and design. The ones that have similar size, cpu and SSDs, etc. are all as expensive as a Mac. Why not just get the Mac, and run Windows in Boot Camp? I also have Parallels and run Windows that way on my Mac Mini, but it is a lot slower.

28 posted on 10/28/2014 1:58:58 PM PDT by Defiant (4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
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