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Skriven 2006-07-05 15:15:35 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 19284 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Apple a day!
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In article <21253$WIN95@JamNNTPd>,
 "Charles Scaglione -> JEAN PARROT" <cs@nomail.com> wrote:

 CS> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 19:46:00 -0400, "JEAN PARROT -> CHARLES SCAGLIONE"
 CS> <1:123/140> wrote:

 CS> Hi Jean:

 CS>>> And you're correct about dual booting the new Macs.  On first glance
 CS>>> and from what we read in MacWorld it seems as though it's a snap.  But
 CS>>> when you begin to dig into the instructions and see what's involved,
 CS>>> it's not as easy as it sounds.

 JP>>         My son had a long session when he installed // and then Win98
 JP>>    on his Power Book but it worked. I had to check him out on all the
 JP>>    keyboard commands that he is not used to. Seems that the Mac users
 JP>>    are strictly mouse pushers. We never did find out the command to
 JP>>    fix/work on the Desktop itself. Some of the commands are easily
 JP>>    done with just a Space bar, he would drag the mouse all over to the
 JP>>    OK button when the Space is much quicker. A mouse man to the hilt,
 JP>>    he is. I am glad that I do not have to setup the Mac OS on my
 CS>   systems.

 CS> I didn't think it was possible to dual boot the new Macs with anything
 CS> other than WinXP SP2.   Are you sure he used the Boot Camp software
 CS> supplied by Apple?  There are other methods of course (other than Boot
 CS> Camp) by they involve virtualization.

 CS> BTW, PC Connection (www.pcconnection.com) has the complete line of Mac
 CS> Intel Powerbooks on their web site.  Prices are slightly below the
 CS> Apple store price and since PC Connection is located in New Hampshire,
 CS> there is no local sales tax.  Also, free shipping.  Go for it!

 CS> Nah, you would rather buy a new Fly Rod.  I know you're a Fly
 CS> fisherman.  <g>

 CS> Thank goodness for the cooler weather we're having here lately.  Maybe
 CS> I can save a bit on my electric bill.

When Jean writes '//' he's referring to Parallels Workstation; the
virtualization software that works under Mac OS X on the new Intel Macs.
I played around with an earlier beta version (it's now officially
version 1.0) and it worked well, letting me install Win2000 and a couple
of Linuxes on my loaner-Mac.

Note that if you see anything being sold as a Powerbook, it isn't a
current, Intel-powered Mac notebook... the current (Intel-powered) Apple
notebooks are either MacBooks (lowered-priced, aimed at education or
home users with 13" screens) or MacBook Pros (premium pricing, 15" or
17" screen models).

If a vendor is advertising Powerbooks, then they're selling off
old-stock, PowerPC models that won't be able to use Apple's Boot Camp to
multi-book to WinXP or use Parallels Workstation virtualization. They
CAN run Windows or other PC operating systems using emulation software
like Virtual PC or Guest PC-- but performance is MUCH slower.

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