What will finally break you from the PC is buying a Mac that can run Windows 7 in a virtual machine like a desktop app window at only about an 8% performance hit versus Windows running natively on the same hardware. You need Windows, you just tab to it.
Slowly, you find yourself not needing Windows for a thing anymore unless you’re slaved to a Microsoft shop in your workplace requirements — and there’s not a lot of people in IT who absolutely have to run Windows natively on the machine right in front of them when logging into their workplace PC via VPN will do. Does that describe you or not?
Once you stop needing Windows, you’re officially a non-smoker. You just wake up one morning and realize you don’t smoke their lousy cigarettes anymore.
If you’ve got all Apple gear but still use a PC desktop, you’re really hobbling yourself for no good reason unless you can think of one right now. Microsoft sure can’t come up with one.
Microsoft Corporation has pretty much proven to the world in the three latest versions of Windows that no typical user needs them anymore, and we’re just about to see if anyone wants their operating system for *free*.
My gaming rig, designed explicitly for flight simulation, is Microsoft. Rather than purchase a Mac with the same hardware, I had one built to my specifications, and it was about a thousand dollars less than the equivalently hardware-d Mac. If I had that kind of cash, I would have considered it, though. I'm going all Mac except for my game rig. My wife is already all Mac, and we also have Apple TV, and two Ipods running around the house on kids' collars.
I don’t understand the virtual Windows 7 on a Mac.
I bought Office for Mac and I get it all. Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. I can send any file that I originate on my Mac to any PC and vice versa.
So why the virtual Windows?