I am getting ready for college and the question of which laptop to purchase has been driving me crazy. I have always been a PC person and I was going to buy a Sony Vaio, but my school offers a disount and a free nano when you purchase a MAC pro. But thne I hear taht the MAC can operat ewith windows Vsita , so my weustion is will it work with a mac and vista just like any regular PC? All my progarms can still be windows based programs and i WONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT OS ? By buying a mac with vista would itbe liek buying what any PC?
2007-06-10 06:37:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Macs include BOOT CAMP (free from Apple) which allows you to start up either as MAC OSX or MS VISTA - you do not have access to the other OS when the other one is running. This is optimal if you plan on playing a lot of games.
More details - so you can set BOOT CAMP to MS VISTA and never use or even see OSX even though you're using an Apple machine.
For around $80, you can get PARELLELS which allows you to run Vista within OSX (but not the other way around). So, if you need to run a WINDOWS app, just double click as your normally would and it opens up in its own window but if you click outside that window, it switches back to Mac. This allows for easy copying though at a slight reduction in speed so you don't want to play games this way or work on CAD or something like that. You do a little more RAM.
The nice thing is you have options with Macs to go either way plus the included apps are great if you want to edit movies, or make music - nothing like that on the WIN side for any price.
If you want to read more, check out:
http://www.macwindows.com/
2007-06-10 06:47:32 · answer #1 · answered by jbelkin800 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My suggestion to u is to get a pro and get the program Paralells. Do not get Apple's new Boot Camp. You can easily switch from on to the other with Paralells. U will also need a Windows Vista installation disk.
2007-06-10 13:46:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea except if ur going 2 use it just for Windows its a lot more than regular pcs. Mac Pros start at $2499 and a colledge student does not normally need 2x xeon woodcreast or clolvertown processors.
2007-06-10 13:54:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea. A mac has all the same components as a PC does. RAM, Hardrive, and so on.
2007-06-10 13:40:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no if you buy a mac then you should use it as a mac. It's just not the same
2007-06-10 13:41:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋