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<blockquote data-quote="Phoenix Scanner" data-source="post: 453563" data-attributes="member: 30648"><p>Regarding AutoCAD and installing programs. Everything is just like a windows pc, because your mac BECOMES a windows pc while it is booted into xp. You still need to have a sp2 copy of xp to install. As I said MS sold me the license online for $149 and I can live with that.</p><p></p><p>You can't see osx drives from windows (no coincidence - thank God), but you can see the windows drive from osx. So if you want to share something from mac to windows you place it in the windows drive before switching. Or you could just use an external drive to keep things simple.</p><p></p><p>In case anyone neglects the instructions (that never happens right?), be sure you format the windows partition to fat32, NOT ntfs, so that osx can properly access it.</p><p></p><p>As far as those wanting to build gaming boxes, yeah, you are right. So make that TWO reasons for not buying a mac. I went through the "tinkering" stage of building my own computers, and it lasted for years. But I am sick of building computers now, and have better things to do with my time. I prefer to spend my "computer time" USING a computer, as opposed to building one.</p><p></p><p>I still say the new PS3 and xboxes have great graphics and game selection, and you can play games in 1080P on a true hd tv. I just don't understand why one would avoid this route and pay many times more to play on a small screen in low def just to have higher frame-rates. But that is just me I guess.</p><p></p><p>So with two legitimate reasons (money and game machine building), to avoid macs, there are still so many more great reasons to buy one.</p><p></p><p>First and foremost, secure (relatively - nothing is foolproof) surfing. Between me and the wife surfing is still the primary activity on our mac. And I will never have to go searching for dll files in system 32 or keys in the registry to get rid of virtumonde, which has violated most pcs I know at least once. No such things on macs. I really hate how windows is so easily exploited by things that are so hard to remove for the average person, even when they use spyware and antivirus programs. It is disgusting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phoenix Scanner, post: 453563, member: 30648"] Regarding AutoCAD and installing programs. Everything is just like a windows pc, because your mac BECOMES a windows pc while it is booted into xp. You still need to have a sp2 copy of xp to install. As I said MS sold me the license online for $149 and I can live with that. You can't see osx drives from windows (no coincidence - thank God), but you can see the windows drive from osx. So if you want to share something from mac to windows you place it in the windows drive before switching. Or you could just use an external drive to keep things simple. In case anyone neglects the instructions (that never happens right?), be sure you format the windows partition to fat32, NOT ntfs, so that osx can properly access it. As far as those wanting to build gaming boxes, yeah, you are right. So make that TWO reasons for not buying a mac. I went through the "tinkering" stage of building my own computers, and it lasted for years. But I am sick of building computers now, and have better things to do with my time. I prefer to spend my "computer time" USING a computer, as opposed to building one. I still say the new PS3 and xboxes have great graphics and game selection, and you can play games in 1080P on a true hd tv. I just don't understand why one would avoid this route and pay many times more to play on a small screen in low def just to have higher frame-rates. But that is just me I guess. So with two legitimate reasons (money and game machine building), to avoid macs, there are still so many more great reasons to buy one. First and foremost, secure (relatively - nothing is foolproof) surfing. Between me and the wife surfing is still the primary activity on our mac. And I will never have to go searching for dll files in system 32 or keys in the registry to get rid of virtumonde, which has violated most pcs I know at least once. No such things on macs. I really hate how windows is so easily exploited by things that are so hard to remove for the average person, even when they use spyware and antivirus programs. It is disgusting. [/QUOTE]
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