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What about a native mac osx version of MC???
sapnho:
A MC OSX version would be a dream come true. ;)
Seriously, MC is the only reason why I still run Windows/Parallels on Mac.
tranceConscious:
I think we should do something like a poll thread to see how many people would pay to get an OSX version of our beauty/beast
glynor:
As Jay said in Mallrats...
DO IT DOUG!!
park:
I'm considering getting a Mac next year. Pretty much the only thing holding me back now that adobe are going to port the production suite over, is Media Center.
I imagine that things would run ok under parrallels though, and futher bootcamp development, and upcoming virtualisation in cpus for simultaneous use of 2 os's seems promising for the future.
glynor:
--- Quote from: park on November 15, 2006, 08:10:27 pm ---I'm considering getting a Mac next year. Pretty much the only thing holding me back now that adobe are going to port the production suite over, is Media Center.
I imagine that things would run ok under parrallels though, and futher bootcamp development, and upcoming virtualisation in cpus for simultaneous use of 2 os's seems promising for the future.
--- End quote ---
Upcoming virtualization?
That's what Parallels Desktop is! Vanderpool support (Intel's virtualization acceleration technology) is included in all of the current Macs.
Also, BootCamp works very well (though it is still officially beta until Leopard comes out). They've now fixed the SATA disk performance issue that there was eariler-on. Using Windows XP on a Mac Pro is now indistinguishable from using Windows XP on a Dell, except for the weird keyboard (and you can get a USB PC keyboard if you want), and the fact that you have to choose at boot which OS to use. In fact, a Mac Pro is a very nice windows workstation for the money (and costs pretty much the same as a similarly configured Dell). Is it a cheap windows Workstation? No... But then it isn't supposed to be a cheap line of computers. It's the Alienware or XPS of the brand.
MacBooks on the other hand? I'd either get a non-Pro MacBook or (better) wait for the "next generation" of them Q2-3 of next year probably. There have been a lot of problems with the MacBook Pros. The one we got at work has been relatively fine, but I've read a lot of reports about them... Typical Apple version 1 stuff. The Mac Pros and MacBooks have been reportedly much better...
If I buy a laptop, it'll definitely be an Apple. I like the way they work and frankly, they're a lot more versatile now. I can use Windows, same as always, and if I feel like it I can boot to OSX and use Apple apps. Best of both worlds.
(Creative Suite 3 will be universal, supposedly Q2 2007 and Office runs fine as is, but is due in late 2007 -- but it's Microsoft so who knows...)
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