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<blockquote data-quote="SteelWheel" data-source="post: 218038"><p>Is anyone doing this? I know it sounds strange, at first...but I'm in an odd situation. I've been a dabbler with Linux here and there the past few years, but never really got that far into it...just seemed like it was too much effort for all the alleged benefits I was going to derive from it. Besides, I do need Windows a good chunk of the time--I trade online (software requires XP), and I play a lot of poker online (nearly all of the big online sites are Windows only).</p><p></p><p>I hate my Toshiba Satellite, which I've only had for a year now. It's slow, and it runs so hot, that if often just shuts down without warning (and not even when being overly taxed--just run a couple of poker clients, Firefox with a few tabs open, and a POP email notification client app I have, and I've seen my whole laptop just shut off without notice. Leaving me having to scramble to a desktop to get back into my poker games (and hoping I haven't lost money during the connection interruption).</p><p></p><p>Additionally, I figure I would have a CLEAN XP--not a laptop with a bundle of crapware and adware that some manufacturer has been paid to stick on my desktop.</p><p></p><p>The picture gets really good for me if Parallels starts to perform as advertised: I could run OS X natively, with my online poker running in a window on the OS X desktop.</p><p></p><p>So I'd be kind of weird: Probably a fairly large XP partition, and a much smaller OS X partition. Does anybody use their new MacBook/MacBook Pro this way? If so, what partitioning structures are used? Yes, I know about the 32 gig limit for FAT partitions. I think it highly likely I would go well beyond that, and have an NTFS partition that would probably be 50% (or perhaps even somewhat more than that) for Windows. For me, this whole prospective endeavor would be partially an excuse to get a nicer Windows laptop, and secondarily a way to explore the Mac world at the same time. It would get even better with a reliable Parallels app, of course.</p><p></p><p>And how do I solve the need for a right-click and CTRL-ALT-DEL within Windows on a Mac, anyway.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for any help or suggestions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteelWheel, post: 218038"] Is anyone doing this? I know it sounds strange, at first...but I'm in an odd situation. I've been a dabbler with Linux here and there the past few years, but never really got that far into it...just seemed like it was too much effort for all the alleged benefits I was going to derive from it. Besides, I do need Windows a good chunk of the time--I trade online (software requires XP), and I play a lot of poker online (nearly all of the big online sites are Windows only). I hate my Toshiba Satellite, which I've only had for a year now. It's slow, and it runs so hot, that if often just shuts down without warning (and not even when being overly taxed--just run a couple of poker clients, Firefox with a few tabs open, and a POP email notification client app I have, and I've seen my whole laptop just shut off without notice. Leaving me having to scramble to a desktop to get back into my poker games (and hoping I haven't lost money during the connection interruption). Additionally, I figure I would have a CLEAN XP--not a laptop with a bundle of crapware and adware that some manufacturer has been paid to stick on my desktop. The picture gets really good for me if Parallels starts to perform as advertised: I could run OS X natively, with my online poker running in a window on the OS X desktop. So I'd be kind of weird: Probably a fairly large XP partition, and a much smaller OS X partition. Does anybody use their new MacBook/MacBook Pro this way? If so, what partitioning structures are used? Yes, I know about the 32 gig limit for FAT partitions. I think it highly likely I would go well beyond that, and have an NTFS partition that would probably be 50% (or perhaps even somewhat more than that) for Windows. For me, this whole prospective endeavor would be partially an excuse to get a nicer Windows laptop, and secondarily a way to explore the Mac world at the same time. It would get even better with a reliable Parallels app, of course. And how do I solve the need for a right-click and CTRL-ALT-DEL within Windows on a Mac, anyway. Thanks for any help or suggestions. [/QUOTE]
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