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I thought the Mac vs. WIN penis measuring died out in the early 2000's. But reading some of these posts, I guess there are still some hold overs out there. Get with the times you grey haired fossils, it's now Snapchat vs. Instagram.
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I want to install and run Windows on my IMac using the boot camp facility. This requires me to have a physical DVD with Windows 7 or higher. Any ideas where I can purchase this at a reasonable price, should I wait for Windows 10?
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I've installed VM Fusion + Windows on a number of Macs as our corporate VPN only supports IE
Works pretty well and you can have windows and mac apps running at the same time. You can install Windows via ISO image so no need for a physical DVD drive.
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Get with the times you grey haired fossils, it's now Snapchat vs. Instagram.
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I've installed VM Fusion + Windows on a number of Macs as our corporate VPN only supports IE
Works pretty well and you can have windows and mac apps running at the same time. You can install Windows via ISO image so no need for a physical DVD drive. |
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Its never stopped, its gone from counting cpu cycles of power pc versus intel for anti virus to much more aesthetic stuff so really when you're arguing over the wallpaper you can tell pretty much both sides are equal and all it is now is just two twins fighting over who gets the presents first
Apple go for aesthetically pleasing and well built whilst Windows manufactures prefer cheap and nasty. |
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Where Windows falls down is the fact that not one manufacturer can seem to put all that hardware/software together in a pleasing well designed well built unit.
Apple go for aesthetically pleasing and well built whilst Windows manufactures prefer cheap and nasty. Apples a closed ecosystem pretty much where as with windows its a wild west where if you fancy it then you can give it a go but don't expect angels singing from behind their turtle necks |
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Where Windows falls down is the fact that not one manufacturer can seem to put all that hardware/software together in a pleasing well designed well built unit.
Apple go for aesthetically pleasing and well built whilst Windows manufactures prefer cheap and nasty. There's plenty more out there including in the All-in-one space. But good on you for living in the 2000s comparing £1,100 machines with £450 machines. |
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VM Fusion has been pretty much eclipsed by Parallels these days.
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I use both on my main Mac laptop and I don't think there's much to choose between them.
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That's honestly a load of crap, £ equivalent machines, there's plenty of great Windows machines: Dell XPS 13 and 15, HP Spectre x360, Acer Aspire S7, Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1, Lenovo Yoga Pro series, Surface Pro and Surface 3 are just to name a few great machines.
There's plenty more out there including in the All-in-one space. But good on you for living in the 2000s comparing £1,100 machines with £450 machines. |
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I have an old Macbook which I have to use windows on as it's no longer supported by Apple. It's such a lovely machine to just bin, the original 17" macbook pro but as its only 32 bit nothing works on it other than Windows. Silly really
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That's honestly a load of crap, £ equivalent machines, there's plenty of great Windows machines: Dell XPS 13 and 15, HP Spectre x360, Acer Aspire S7, Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1, Lenovo Yoga Pro series, Surface Pro and Surface 3 are just to name a few great machines.
There's plenty more out there including in the All-in-one space. But good on you for living in the 2000s comparing £1,100 machines with £450 machines. I have yet to see a Windows AIO that comes anywhere near the iMac for design or build quality. The other consideration of course is resale value - prices of Windows machines just bomb before you've even managed to leave the store. |
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The other consideration of course is resale value - prices of Windows machines just bomb before you've even managed to leave the store.
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The prices of Apple stuff second hand are nowhere near as mental as they once were, now everyone and their dog are buying them to pose in starbucks the rarity value is dropping pretty fast compared to some of the stupidity i saw on fleabay probably 5 or 6 years ago when even a 68k mac was listed for about 500 quid and PPC stuff started at about 900-1000 quid mark
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Works pretty well and you can have windows and mac apps running at the same time. You can install Windows via ISO image so no need for a physical DVD drive.
