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Finally getting my wife to switch!
Authored by: penthang on Apr 16, '06 08:59:37AM

For years I have been trying to convet my wife to the mac camp. She is always more than happy to use my Mac, but , has staunchly refused to get her own. With the advent of boot camp, and to my mind even better is parallels virtulazation solution. Despite the fact that I have shown her solutions on the Mac for vurtualy every windows program she uses, she is reluctant to change in case something won't do what she wants. With this announcement she is now set on a new MacBook Pro as her next computer and an intel iMac as our houshold central repository. Of course as time goes on I'm sure that the windows partition will get less and less use. When I got my iBook two years ago and switched back to mac, I bought a copy of virtual PC for the few things that I hadn't found replacements for on a mac yet. It is still sealed in the package. The few things that I did still use (mostly PalmPilot) either came out with some sort of Mac solution shortly or I found a competeing product that worked on mac. This is where I put in my obligatory plug for NoeOffice...it keeps getting better and has no ties to Microsoft. Anyway, I think, and hope, that dual booting and virtualization along with Apples support with drivers will drive switchers. Also if they were to offer a home media server built around a mac mini with a huge hard drive and Apple built TIVO solution that would be a huge jump on piont for iPod switchers.

Thanks for listening to my two cents,
Penthang



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