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Originally Posted by magpan
Ding! Ding! Ding! And, we have a winner! Your comments are noted, 1 vote for sticking with Mac OS and running some select PC apps.  |
Yeah. I think your point is that although you use Windows mainly, you prefer Apple's hardware. And who wouldn't?
If cutting the cord from Windows is hard, you should run both operating systems on the machine, which is what I do. Here's the approach you should take:
If the apps you still need to run on the Windows side are fairly minor users of resources, just stay in OSX and emulate with Fusion, Parallels or Crossover, running on top of Mac OS X. It's a slightly slower way to run Windows, but with non-resource hog apps, who cares? You won't notice. I like the Windows Pinball game (lol). I also like the Windows only Star Alliance timetable. These are apps I can run with Windows emulation.
If however, the apps you need to run are intensive and you can only use them on the Windows side, you need to run the Windows OS natively in order to achiever peak performance with those apps. If run Windows as a partition with Bootcamp, you will.
I do Bootcamp for one reason only: I do video on Vegas. I just can't get the hang of the Mac way of doing video (maybe someday). Although the other resource-intensive apps many of us use on Windows, such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Excel, etc., can be done with Mac versions, and more pleasantly so.
Although Mac products has a reputation for being more expensive, and usually deservedly so,
The MacBook Pro runs Windows and Windows apps as fast as or faster than any other laptop maker would for the same price. When you're truly comparing apples to apples, a Dell or HP or some other PC laptop that can handle a true workhouse editing and rendering routine, would be every bit as expensive as a MacBook Pro--often more expensive.