Hi everyone. I switched to a Macbook Pro a little over a year ago after some convincing and i absolutely love it. I couldnt be happier, but at my office i am still stuck with my old PC desktop and i just cant stand using it anymore. I am thinking about trying to get a Mac desktop in my office. The problem is we are all connected to the server and it runs windows. Now i am not sure what version of windows server it is running so i dont know if that makes a difference.
Our company mail does not go through an exchange server, instead its a POP3, so i dont figure that to be a problem. But the real question is how do i get all my old mail that is saved up on my current computer (in a pst file) over to the Mac so i dont lose all my old e-mails i need?
Also, another major hurdle is we use a few accounting programs and i also use a CAD drawing program (AutoCAD LT) which are windows only programs. I have heard you can use things to run windows at the same time, or just run a program so you can open these windows programs without a problem. I really dont know anything about this so if anyone could shed some light id appreciate it. Also, if i got a regular iMac would it have enough power to run all these programs smoothly at the same time?
Can it hook up to network shared printers even though they are run through the Windows server?
Im sure theres tons of other things im not thinking of, but it seems i have a lot of hurdles to jump to make this work.
Thanks for the help.
Our company mail does not go through an exchange server, instead its a POP3, so i dont figure that to be a problem. But the real question is how do i get all my old mail that is saved up on my current computer (in a pst file) over to the Mac so i dont lose all my old e-mails i need?
Also, another major hurdle is we use a few accounting programs and i also use a CAD drawing program (AutoCAD LT) which are windows only programs. I have heard you can use things to run windows at the same time, or just run a program so you can open these windows programs without a problem. I really dont know anything about this so if anyone could shed some light id appreciate it. Also, if i got a regular iMac would it have enough power to run all these programs smoothly at the same time?
Can it hook up to network shared printers even though they are run through the Windows server?
Im sure theres tons of other things im not thinking of, but it seems i have a lot of hurdles to jump to make this work.
Thanks for the help.