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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1606203" data-attributes="member: 234411"><p>Hi <strong>Reneeaz</strong> - also in part, as the internet has become more dominant in the world and much faster w/ broadband connections available in recent years, the need to offer software on optical discs has simply disappeared. Last spring, I returned to Apple w/ the purchase on an iMac & MBPro, neither had an optical drive - I bought Apple's Superdrive for about $70, but non-Apple USB CD/DVD externals can be purchased for half that price, so not much of an investment. In the last 18 months, I've never used the Superdrive w/ the iMac and have burnt about a dozen MP3 CD-Rs from purchased music on my laptop; so you thoughts on using the USB flash drives would work fine.</p><p></p><p>But my question regarding you wanting to run Windows programs on your iMac is whether you have already setup Windows on the computer using either Boot Camp or a virtual partition, using software such as Parallels? The Windows software that you want to used would then be installed w/i the Windows environment. I'm sure that you are already beyond that point but if not, then you have some preparation before trying to load Windows software on a Mac OS drive. Dave <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1606203, member: 234411"] Hi [B]Reneeaz[/B] - also in part, as the internet has become more dominant in the world and much faster w/ broadband connections available in recent years, the need to offer software on optical discs has simply disappeared. Last spring, I returned to Apple w/ the purchase on an iMac & MBPro, neither had an optical drive - I bought Apple's Superdrive for about $70, but non-Apple USB CD/DVD externals can be purchased for half that price, so not much of an investment. In the last 18 months, I've never used the Superdrive w/ the iMac and have burnt about a dozen MP3 CD-Rs from purchased music on my laptop; so you thoughts on using the USB flash drives would work fine. But my question regarding you wanting to run Windows programs on your iMac is whether you have already setup Windows on the computer using either Boot Camp or a virtual partition, using software such as Parallels? The Windows software that you want to used would then be installed w/i the Windows environment. I'm sure that you are already beyond that point but if not, then you have some preparation before trying to load Windows software on a Mac OS drive. Dave :) [/QUOTE]
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