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Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein
Okay....
I'm still considering buying a Macintosh desktop
despite the fact that my biggest fear about doing
so is the huge amount of Windows software that
I need to run on it without straying away from the
Mac OS environment.
Fortunately there is Windows Parallels, an $80 piece
of software that opens up a window inside your Mac
OS that allows you to run Windows inside of it.
So, I suppose this question is for those of you that
are actually using that program....
1. Does Windows run pretty fast in the parallel environment?
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I've never run this particular product (Windows Parallels), but I have experience with Windows emulators from back before Apple moved the Macintosh to Intel architecture, and for most things it ran quite well. There was some performance-sucking overhead, but it was still speedy enough to play games ant whatnot. I imagine that now that the Macintosh is using hardware that is virtually identical to "Wintel" machines, the performance overhead will be even less.
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2. Can I install Microsoft Office in the Windows parallel
environment and run all my Office files? Someone had told
me that I would need to buy the Office for MAC in order
for this to work, but in theory I can't see how this is true.
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What will it cost you to try? To be honest, you won't be disappointed with running the Mac version of Office without emulation. Microsoft does a great job with Mac Office and it works seamlessly with files generated by the Windows version of Office. It even runs the great majority of Office VB macros without a hitch. You'll only run into trouble if the person who wrote the macro used Office VB to make calls to Windows APIs.
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3. Will Vista most likely run in the parallels environment?
Just a few questions to start off with. Thanks in advance!
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If the past is anything to go on, you should probably wait for an update from the publisher of Windows Parallel before attempting to mess around with Vista.