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Hi
I have been a PC user for years and thought what the heck the macbook pro is supposed to be great so got me one (13"/4GB/320GB) and it looks nice.
Here's the thing.....
I have been running a piece of recruitment software on my PC (laptop) called Palustris and it does not work in a mac environemnt and they say it is unsupported on a mac machine as they have not tested it (fair enough).
I've been told by a pal to use bootcamp to section the hard drive and create a windows enviroment in 2/3 of it. Upload a windows 7 OS and the office suite for 2007. Then set it to boot up in windows.
The Palustris software links to Outlook and Word and needs these to work:
WINDOWS EMULATOR
SQL SERVER EXPRESS 2005
WINDOWS INDEXING SERVICE
.NET FRAMEWORK 3.5
I have no idea what these are (or desire to know as I am a TechnoDummy) but does anyone know if this will work? I dont want to pay the set up/transer of data fees for the Palustris database if its a pointless exercise.
Also, given that I am going to be using it in windows mainly as I need this to work do you think there is any benefit to keeping the macbook as I can take it back as am yet to install or do anything (was looking at a Sony Viao too).
Any advice greatly appreciated
Lisa Techno Dummy
I have been a PC user for years and thought what the heck the macbook pro is supposed to be great so got me one (13"/4GB/320GB) and it looks nice.
Here's the thing.....
I have been running a piece of recruitment software on my PC (laptop) called Palustris and it does not work in a mac environemnt and they say it is unsupported on a mac machine as they have not tested it (fair enough).
I've been told by a pal to use bootcamp to section the hard drive and create a windows enviroment in 2/3 of it. Upload a windows 7 OS and the office suite for 2007. Then set it to boot up in windows.
The Palustris software links to Outlook and Word and needs these to work:
WINDOWS EMULATOR
SQL SERVER EXPRESS 2005
WINDOWS INDEXING SERVICE
.NET FRAMEWORK 3.5
I have no idea what these are (or desire to know as I am a TechnoDummy) but does anyone know if this will work? I dont want to pay the set up/transer of data fees for the Palustris database if its a pointless exercise.
Also, given that I am going to be using it in windows mainly as I need this to work do you think there is any benefit to keeping the macbook as I can take it back as am yet to install or do anything (was looking at a Sony Viao too).
Any advice greatly appreciated
Lisa Techno Dummy