Windows on a Mac

[AndrewT]

I dont really agree with your analogy, but thanks for the input.

As i mentioned im travelling and the macbook is very slim, so easy for transporting around everywhere. I, and members of my family have had store bought laptops beofre and ive never been impressed and usually start having issues relatively quickly. I was just enquiring about the ease of the process as I personally dont know anyone thats done it.

A Macbook Pro will cost at least £1300. For no more money than that you'll be able to buy a nice Windows laptop with which you won't need to bother with partitioning/dualbooting etc.

For example, here's a laptop with the same processor, RAM, hard drive and graphics card as the Macbook Pro, yet it's £400 cheaper.

http://www.evesham.com/products/info.asp?e=D7111FF9-8356-4B7E-9E8C-B41133847305

[ifm]

I am planning on purchasing Parallels for around £30.

I don't know how much Windows cost these days, but XP should do the job. I was advised to purchase online where it'll be a lot cheaper.

It's worth it though, once you get used to it, Macs are a lot MORE EXPENSIVE FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT, but you need a few days to become accustomed rather than use it for the first time at an improtant live update in Monte Carlo.

FYP

Oooh, debatable. Macs are full of all sorts of amazing cool stuff that you just don't realise the value of until you're using them every day.

And owning a Mac will make you smarter and more attractive.

I'm training mine to bring me breakfast in the morning.

So it's an upgrade from snoops then?

Lol, you have no idea what Macs are capable of...

http://www.silvermac.com/2006/vibrating-macbook-pro/

LOL!!

[danafish]

I am planning on purchasing Parallels for around £30.

I don't know how much Windows cost these days, but XP should do the job. I was advised to purchase online where it'll be a lot cheaper.

It's worth it though, once you get used to it, Macs are a lot MORE EXPENSIVE FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT, but you need a few days to become accustomed rather than use it for the first time at an improtant live update in Monte Carlo.

FYP

Oooh, debatable. Macs are full of all sorts of amazing cool stuff that you just don't realise the value of until you're using them every day.

And owning a Mac will make you smarter and more attractive.

I'm training mine to bring me breakfast in the morning.

So it's an upgrade from snoops then?

Lol, you have no idea what Macs are capable of...

http://www.silvermac.com/2006/vibrating-macbook-pro/

LOL!!

"The only way to discharge it is to slide my hands a few times left-right along the computer surface"

LOL!!!

[kinboshi]

One of these would be cool for playing on the move:

http://www.tabletpc2.com/Review-ToshibaTecra-M7-S7331TabletPC-Article900918.htm

The screen spins round and folds down so you can use it as a tablet PC. 

[happybhoy]

To add to the other windows on mac options you could grab a copy of the free VMplayer from the vmware site and get yourself a windows image (give me a shout if you need one I've got a couple kicking about). As far as I can see vmware are the dogs bollox for virtualisation.

[Pab]

The spec on the 17" macbook pro looks better than the link u posted. Big screen is pretty important to me, is a real struggle to get 4 tables on a 15" without strianing my eyes. Am leaning towards the parralels application, as i dont fancy rebooting all the time. Thanks for all the replies, no final decision made as of yet.

[Bongo]

A Macbook Pro will cost at least £1300. For no more money than that you'll be able to buy a nice Windows laptop with which you won't need to bother with partitioning/dualbooting etc.

A friend of mine recently bought one from the Mac Refurb store for £899, same warranty etc as a new one and you would never know it is not brand new.

We'll shortly be trying out parallels, so I can't comment on that yet, but it generally gets good reviews.