Mac OS X forum: Will you be running Windows on your Intel Mac?

The only thing that kept me from owning a Mac was that there were too many programs I wouldn't be able to use since there was no Mac version. So, YES, I would be running Windows on a MAC. IMO, Apple computers have consistently been ahead of any trend (first w/ USB, first w/ Firewire, etc.), built better, perform better, have a longer ''lifespan'', and overall are great machines. To me, running Virtual PC and then Windows within that environment was not worth it -- Windows bogged down and didn't perform well.

(As an aside, I manage at a ''major computer superstore'' where I watch new product come in every day. We had our Apple computer specialist load Windows using Boot Camp and it just blew me out of the water!) I will definitely be purchasing a Mac this time ... I love the monitors, the graphics, etc. Now all I have to do is talk the hubby into believing I ''need'' it now!! LOL

Bear in mind that Boot Camp is only a Beta product and as such, does not have every driver available.
I was interested in your comment "I was mad because so many thing were not ready or working on the mac".
What exactly was it that was not working?
Hopefully you don't mean that none of your Windows programs worked, they are not supposed to. Likewise, Mac programs do not work on Windows. So, what didn't work. Maybe we can help you

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The poster has almost certainly never used OS 9 and ALL of the big programs run on OS X on the G3/G4/G5 processor, none of which were made by Motorola. Apple has not used Motorola chips since the PPC chip became the norm in all Mac's. Software developers stopped writing for OS 9 in 2000 and for the 680x0 processor quite a while before that.
So I don't think the poster has that problem. Note how there were not actual specifics as to what would not run. I'm still leaning toward the notion that they were referring to their .exe applications as the advent of Boot Camp solved the problem.

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My saddest loss in making the switch from Windows to Mac was WordPerfect but then I am still old enough to be mourning Lotus Manuscript and Magellan!

I used to be a Windows exclusive user, and I shunned Mac's. Then I started using them while I was in college, which coincidentally was when OS X first came out. Through the various versions of OS X released it has just gotten better and better, while Windows has been stagnant and becoming less and less secure.

Since the release of 10.3 I found myself preferring my iBook more often than my more powerful PC desktop. While I loved the programs and the interface of OS X, I didn't want to give up some of the software I have that only runs on PC's (plus it's nice to have both systems around because each has its virtues). Now that I don't have to choose between Windows or OSX for my next machine, I'll be buying a Mac laptop, and eventually a mac desktop, that I'll run both OSX and Windows (although I'll avoid windows like the plague whenever I can).

As more Mac programs become Universal Binaries that run faster on Intel Macs I am sure that I will use Windows less and less. I just hope that the ability to run Windows on an Intel Mac doesn't hinder software developers from making Mac versions of their software (there's a reason Windows is so bloated and only getting bigger, while OS X "trimmed the fat" when it got rid of OS9 support).

It will be a while before I buy a new computer, mostly because what I have now is working well, partly because I've made some other large purchases that need to be paid off, and partly because I've learned to wait for rev. 2 or 3 on a "new" design.

When I do move over to the Intel chip, I see no reason to exclude a tool that will increase the number of things my computer can do.
There are software titles in my industry that are only written for Windows. I have found other ways to get my job done, sometimes by excluding equipment from the spec. that requires Windows software, and sometimes by using Mac software and adapting the result as best I can.

Understand that If I had Windows my problems would be the same, since there are Mac only titles, and and there is Mac driven hardware that Windows users must deal with.

Will I ever let the Windows OS see an e-mail, Sony disk, or "web art" site? Probably not. OSX is a much better tool for those tasks.

I can drive nails into wood with the end of a C-wrench. Eventually it will ruin the wrench, and it won't turn a bolt any more. It's a silly thing to do to my wrench when I have a perfectly good hammer.

I want both in my toolbox.


Lampie

Lampie, fun reply. I'm like you and like to wait and see concerning the Intel dual-core chip.
But to tell you the truth, who the heck wants to run Windows in the first place? Crash and burn all the time? No thanks.
I have a PC for my wife and have run Windows and programs.
I am sick and tired to be told that I have run an illegal operation.

Isn't that nice to be informed before crashing?
I will wait for the new OSX software version to come out and upgrade before I ever think of buying a new computer. My Mac G4 is still very fast running Photoshop.

Personally I think that it is a marketing move from Steve Jobs showing there is an increase, percentage wise, on who uses the Mac OS V/S PC Windowz.
Food for thought. Hold on to the tools that work!! :)

-Kevin

Why bother?
I thought the reason people used a mac was for an alternative to the big bad windows.

Not likely, I can't think of any programs I would use that I can't get in a Mac version. I don't play games and frankly I've never had the remotest desire for windoze on my home camputer.

All my statistical software runs only on Windows. With XP on my MAC, I can deep six the WIN-box. And soon I can dual boot at the same time and paste my results from PC into MAC documents. I just hope that MAC's don't get too too popular. Then we'll become another inviting target for the PHISHERs and SPAMMers.

I will be getting my iMAC next month and as I had stated in earlier post I was going to run XP so I could work with PSCS2. Now Adobe has announced it will release CS3 in 2nd quarter of '07 for the MAC intel. After waiting this long to buy the best why screw it up with Window OS?

Microsoft's Product Activation should help force the issue of whether your license is valid or not. If it won't activate then you know what to do.

Just for clarity. One license per PC (or Mac) so no sharing...

Bob

1. No
2. Yes
3. Thereby hangs a tale.

The EULA on Windows only authorizes the installation on one machine at a time. Remember that XP, and presumably Vista, will have to be authorized by with a serial number with Microsoft. Failure to register, uniquely, will result in Windows ceasing to work after a period of time.

The cost of a copy of XP pro is more than a copy of Tiger.

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Embarrassingly I forgot to remember that Boot Camp only works on Mactels, one of which I do not have. However, my response will be the same when I eventually DO get a Mactel.

My Mac is my relief, my antidote, my magic mental massage to eradicate from my mind the trials and tribulations of struggling to get Windows to do even the simplest task in a logical way all day at work.

The day I purchase my first Mactel (a Mini with some external drives as my home server perhaps?) and am able to give Bill gates my money with a purchase of WinXP I will happily avoid doing so and never think twice.