[Discussion] Thinking of going IMAC

[Carl Gehr]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:54:14 -0700, Ernest Fisch wrote:

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>On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:08 AM, Gerry Chilibeck wrote:
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>> I do not relish the need of researching Video cards and drivers,
>> printers, ACPI bioses, buggy Lucide and Flash, etc....etc.
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>> SO, thinking of going to IMAC  27", 1 tb hd and then using Parallels
>> V5 and loading Snow Leopard v10.6, eCS GA and winXP.
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>> I am reasonably tech competent dealing with eCS and win95/XP
>> to a lesser extent.   I have never done any virtualization stuff of any kind.
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>> So, has anyone here done what I am thinking of doing on any MAC??
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>> Is Parallels Desktop for MAC a major or minor install challenge??
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>Earlier this year I did pretty much the same thing for the same reasons.  I use Fusion rather than Parallels because it was more up to date at the time.  Absolutely no problem installing either Fusion or XP.  I would think that Parallels would be the same.
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>XP runs on the IMac better than on my old Windows laptop.  The only other thing I would say is to verify that your peripherals are supported on the Mac.
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>What you will discover is that all the stuff you can do now you can do on the Mac, just differently  It is kind of like having to drive in England.

BUT, . . .

If someone wants/needs to run eCS as a guest, . . .
How does this work?  I have no interest in running Windoze of any
flavor, but I have a few apps that will only run on eCS.

So, if I were to move to MAC-anything, with either Fusion or Parallels,
what kind of surprises might I find?
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TIA,
Carl