I have a MacBook pro that is my bread & butter machine. I also run parallels on it for a couple of applications that I need and will not run under OSX.
My desktop machine is a Dell Wintel box about five years old, and it's gettin' kind of slow. Instead of replacing it with another Wintel box, I'm thinking of buying an iMac instead, running bootcamp, and keeping it in XP (or Vista) most of the time.
Other than the cost penalty, which can be mostly offset by buying a discontiued Core Duo (vs. Core 2 Duo) iMac for about $800 plus some RAM, does anybody see any disadvantages to this strategy??
My desktop machine is a Dell Wintel box about five years old, and it's gettin' kind of slow. Instead of replacing it with another Wintel box, I'm thinking of buying an iMac instead, running bootcamp, and keeping it in XP (or Vista) most of the time.
Other than the cost penalty, which can be mostly offset by buying a discontiued Core Duo (vs. Core 2 Duo) iMac for about $800 plus some RAM, does anybody see any disadvantages to this strategy??