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<blockquote data-quote="Bob- S" data-source="post: 745765" data-attributes="member: 71631"><p>My first post guys so humour me......</p><p></p><p>I'm a recent and increasingly avid convert to Macs having got a Macbook and I-phone and appreciating the reliability and style of both. </p><p></p><p>I'm now at the point of thinking of going the whole hog and ditching my desktop PC in favour of an IMac so that I have to no longer spend half my life maintaining the PC; virus updates etc etc. However.............. I run 2 Quicken based finance packages, Quicken and Quickbooks and from reading around the subject there are problems to say the least in taking those to the Mac platform (Intuit's problem not Mac I gather). Also, I have a number c1500, tracks on I tunes that are on my PC and phone but, I understand, can't be transferred back from phone to new IMac without going about it one by one.............and life's too short for that.</p><p></p><p>Now here's the daft question..........I know that there are various ways of running windows on a Mac - (Bootcamp and others), but I'd rather have the Mac running as a Mac with no legacy windows issues lurking in there. Can an IMac be hooked up to a PC so that it has the function of simply a screen so that I can run the few windows apps I need when I need them and for 95% of the time, disconnect the PC again and use the IMac as it should be.</p><p></p><p>I realise that might be a really dumb question but just a thought? Stop laughing out there !!!</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p><p></p><p>Bob</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob- S, post: 745765, member: 71631"] My first post guys so humour me...... I'm a recent and increasingly avid convert to Macs having got a Macbook and I-phone and appreciating the reliability and style of both. I'm now at the point of thinking of going the whole hog and ditching my desktop PC in favour of an IMac so that I have to no longer spend half my life maintaining the PC; virus updates etc etc. However.............. I run 2 Quicken based finance packages, Quicken and Quickbooks and from reading around the subject there are problems to say the least in taking those to the Mac platform (Intuit's problem not Mac I gather). Also, I have a number c1500, tracks on I tunes that are on my PC and phone but, I understand, can't be transferred back from phone to new IMac without going about it one by one.............and life's too short for that. Now here's the daft question..........I know that there are various ways of running windows on a Mac - (Bootcamp and others), but I'd rather have the Mac running as a Mac with no legacy windows issues lurking in there. Can an IMac be hooked up to a PC so that it has the function of simply a screen so that I can run the few windows apps I need when I need them and for 95% of the time, disconnect the PC again and use the IMac as it should be. I realise that might be a really dumb question but just a thought? Stop laughing out there !!! Cheers Bob [/QUOTE]
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