Comments on: Use your Mac as Mac

By: KenC

KenC — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:59:53 +0000

@Nolan

Question though your telling him he should get a PC since he mostly needs PC applications correct?

And if so why should he? What if he likes using Mac and it’s Unix background but does find the need that occasionally when he has to do business on said laptop that he loads windows.

I don’t have a Intel mac (yet) but when I do I plan to run windows in bootcamp and/or parallels, Why? Cause occasionally I will need to run windows and if I can install it why by a PC laptop/desktop? There is still groups of us that still have to run windows

(I for one own my own IT service for helping people out it’s easier to troubleshoot issues if I have both OS’s on one laptop) The great thing about the intel mac’s and Leopard is that we can do what we want Since you only wanna run Mac then do that and those of us who want mac’s and windows will do that.

I hope that you don’t think that someone would by a mac and never use OS X.

By: Nolan

Nolan — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:31:22 +0000

Leo – I’m not trying to convince anyone to switch to a Mac. You perhaps make the point better than I. If you need windows buy a PC and use windows. Just don’t buy a Mac and then complain if it doesn’t run windows fast enough. Your business applications certainly are Windows dominated so you would need a PC. Sorry if you misunderstood my intent. Not trying to convince anyone to buy a Mac, just to buy what they need and use it for its best purpose. Thanks for the comment.

Mark – Thanks for the clarification. Yes you can limit the ram use but it does slow down the machine as it’s ram is shared. I used to run my Adobe suite in Parallels while running multiple OS X applications. It worked the machine (and fan) hard. Once I upgraded to Adobe for Mac I think my machine smiled. Thankfully the last of my PC applications were ported over to Mac and now I only boot windows to update and test browser compatibility for sites.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 24 May 2009 01:02:56 +0000

“You are running OS X, virtualization software, and monster Windows. Windows Vista is so bloated that it barely runs itself without lots of ram”

The guest OS runs in as much memory as you assign it in your virtualization software. There’s no need to add extra to pad your list.

Otherwise good article.

By: Gary K

Gary K — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:42:41 +0000

Nice article. I agree, I too am happiest using my Mac as a Mac. Unfortunately when I switched a year ago, I already had a Zune as well as my ipod. This of course created a need for me to run Windows, since Microsoft has not smartened up and created a OS X version of the Zune Marketplace. This however is the ONLY program I run in Window as my Mac came with everything else that I need.

By: Leo

Leo — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:19:44 +0000

Why are you so concerned what OS people run on their computer? The decision on buying hardware has, since the early days of the PC, been what hardware do I need to purchase for the software that I intend to run. For example, I do residential kitchen design. All currently available Pro kitchen design software runs on Windows only. The only program that ever ran on the Mac switched over to PC only about 12 years ago. My wife works in the insurance industry and once again, every major quoting software is Windows only. If we want to work at home, guess what – we need Windows. Quit trying to convince others what they should be doing and just buy the system the fits YOUR needs.