mredraider

Can you imagine the ads? Can you imagine the jump in marketshare? Dell is screwed.

donnacha

now, the only problem is serial and paraellel ports for programming microchips. looks liek I'll still need an old pentium one lying around ;)

dj-kenpo

in this environment, one simply cannot buy an off the shelf application that meets the needs of their institution.

100% of the time, if we install bootcamp and xp we have Zero issues, as the OS is not being emulated, it is just the OS. 25% of the time with parallels we have zero issues, as the OS is being emulated and is not simply a clean install.

I'd wager you'd find similar results with anyone running custom applications and such experiences account directly for the disparity in responses.

zamafir

db2

Tony C

rohan1

joule

I purchased it for testing websites so rebooting into BootCamp is not an option (that would waste way too much time). And it works flawlessly for this purpose.

otherorange

"Uh, you got screwed. Parallels comes with new macs via resellers for $9.99, including XP.

As for functionality, yeah... ok. Good one. Anyway, why would you blame something other than yourself-- who buys a computer because "the ads tell me it's easier to go with a Mac"?"

Who? Apple's target market apparently. I don't follow the ads advice, I just notice how obnoxious and wrong it is.

rcarydon

That said, I do check for updates to XP religiously and update sophos on the XP side every time i boot into it... then I feel less nostalgic and more annoyed at the crap the average windows user has to go through. But it couldn't be any other way really. When was the last time the 'greatest' product was that which achieved the largest market penetration? Windows? Ford F150? Ipod? Oh whoops :)

zamafir

How ironic where people have to be told these days that if they want to run Windows really well to buy a good Windows PC. Wow. Are Macs that much dominant? Or at least in this site anyway? Dell is laying off 10% of it's workforce. My last computer purchases were a MBP, MB, and MP. How things have changed. Besides, you just can't beat (no pun intended) doing PR0n surfing in a Mac. No viruses man. It's like wearing a digital condom :)

apeguero

is it really that prohibitive to spend a few seconds booting into XP to use that one specific app that you keep the partition for - also receiving 100% XP stability (may seem a bit of a misnomer though I've found XP behaves -as it should - a million times better on a native install via bootcamp vs this parallels crap).

And come on, who's honestly going to game through parallels? i'd wager cnc3 still runs like crap even on an 8 way mac pro.

no dice, but thanks.

zamafir

Jason Chen

If you don't comprehend why one would want this then it isn't for you I guess . . . but insulting people because your lack of abstract thought is silly . . .

mjsmitho

Zeromus

quikboy

Falconfire

Slappy McSlapp

I like my Mac, but I wish Apple would support a new gfx card. Hopefully something new comes out at WWDC. Our current selection is rather stale.

KenK

Kubota

Slappy McSlapp

It's still going to run a lot slower that using windows natively. Why buy a nice video card if it's performance will stink?

R2B2

Not based on the Screenshot above, which shows that the Generic VGA driver is being used.

Lenroc

gwlaw99

and you mentioning "male enhancement" just tells me you think about dicks all day long. I suppose since you ARE a dick that makes sense...

blazio

The Truthbearer

As for functionality, yeah... ok. Good one. Anyway, why would you blame something other than yourself-- who buys a computer because "the ads tell me it's easier to go with a Mac"?

Geez, I can only imagine your attempts at "male enhancement."

Slappy McSlapp

rcarydon