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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 645140" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I'm actually inclined to say go with the MacBook Air. If the cost is no issue, you have an external drive for backup, expect to tote the laptop around quite a bit (especially if carrying that with school books) and are fully expecting to get a desktop later anyway, then I'd go with the Air. If you wind up not getting a desktop, perhaps you could consider a larger external monitor for use with the Air at home. As long as you are OK with the 13" screen, the Air will suit your needs just fine, and I think you'll appreciate the weight savings in the long run. I don't know why anyone thinks it can't serve as a primary computer anyway... I'd like to hear one solid reason for that.</p><p></p><p>Yes.</p><p></p><p>Parallels basically runs Windows "in a window" inside OS X. It tricks Windows into think it's running on a computer by itself, rather than in a "virtual" one. Most apps run great, but games in particular don't generally run well because the whole emulation environment creates a lot of overhead on the system. With games, you are generally stuck using Boot Camp. <a href="http://www.codeweavers.com/about/" target="_blank">Crossover</a> is one alternative... it lets you run many Windows apps and games in OS X without Windows itself. Support is hit or miss... some things work better than others, many not at all. Those that do work though work as if native to OS X... at full speed. I looked over their forum for <a href="http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2211" target="_blank">The Sims 2</a> and the last forum activity shows it is known not to work. But there's no mention of it being tried on Crossover Games, which I can tell you works GREAT for a lot of games that were iffy on the regular Crossover version that preceeded Games. They've also started releasing nightly builds to the public, and I've seen even better results with that. If I can borrow a copy of The Sims from someone, I may try it with the newer versions and post my results there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 645140, member: 38864"] I'm actually inclined to say go with the MacBook Air. If the cost is no issue, you have an external drive for backup, expect to tote the laptop around quite a bit (especially if carrying that with school books) and are fully expecting to get a desktop later anyway, then I'd go with the Air. If you wind up not getting a desktop, perhaps you could consider a larger external monitor for use with the Air at home. As long as you are OK with the 13" screen, the Air will suit your needs just fine, and I think you'll appreciate the weight savings in the long run. I don't know why anyone thinks it can't serve as a primary computer anyway... I'd like to hear one solid reason for that. Yes. Parallels basically runs Windows "in a window" inside OS X. It tricks Windows into think it's running on a computer by itself, rather than in a "virtual" one. Most apps run great, but games in particular don't generally run well because the whole emulation environment creates a lot of overhead on the system. With games, you are generally stuck using Boot Camp. [URL="http://www.codeweavers.com/about/"]Crossover[/URL] is one alternative... it lets you run many Windows apps and games in OS X without Windows itself. Support is hit or miss... some things work better than others, many not at all. Those that do work though work as if native to OS X... at full speed. I looked over their forum for [URL="http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2211"]The Sims 2[/URL] and the last forum activity shows it is known not to work. But there's no mention of it being tried on Crossover Games, which I can tell you works GREAT for a lot of games that were iffy on the regular Crossover version that preceeded Games. They've also started releasing nightly builds to the public, and I've seen even better results with that. If I can borrow a copy of The Sims from someone, I may try it with the newer versions and post my results there. [/QUOTE]
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