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Subject: [Leica] Mac - Solid State or HD - for Tina
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:18:49 +0530
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Brian,
I would like to understand why would you use Windows on a MAC platform? What
is the advantage?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Brian Reid <reid at 
mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>wrote:

>
>  Brian had said in the past that he preferred VMWare.
>>
>
> I've used both. I actually preferred Parallels, but I ran into some nagging
> bugs that I couldn't get their customer service people to help me with. I
> switched to VMware, which didn't have those bugs (presumably it has 
> others),
> and it has worked perfectly. I was astonished to discover that VMware could
> use the virtual machine files that were created and left behind by
> Parallels.
>
> I find that using a Windows system on a Mac is not a compromise or a kludge
> or a workaround. It's real, it works well, and it's perfectly OK to plan on
> using it in the long term. That surprised me, as I expected it to be all of
> those things (compromise, kludge, workaround).
>
>
>
>
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