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Dual Boot Godsend for Rental Stations
Authored by: Frederico on Apr 16, '06 08:47:15PM

I now run a PostNet with a focus on business services; I constantly fight the need to provide WinXP or Mac, and keeping enough rental stations available of either breed is frustrating. Using KVM switches is all well and good, but costly and crowded to have dual hardware at every desk.

While I can't afford to replace my G4s and WinTel screwdriver boxes all at once with iMacs, I will now be able to slap a Mac mini with, at first, Boot Camp, and, hopefully later, Parallels and my existing displays and peripherals, giving my customer the ability to take a seat at any workstation and boot to the environment of choice.

All I can say is AWESOME!! My technology budget hit with Boot Camp just allowed me to now more than double my upgrades for the year. And, since it is now documented as possible to use XP, XP SP1, and XP Upgrade discs via slipstreaming, I do not have to repurchase any XP seats, either (though I will have to "throw away" -- read: donate -- my old WinTel hardware sans OS).



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