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04/22/2007: "~ The Best Computing ~"
I've been sending people here to see my "Safe Computing - The Patrish Way" entry for two years. I have found a better way. It is called Intel Mac. Read more for the justification of this entry....
Number 1 for people who say Mac is too expensive: Even if you spring for the three year Apple Care, you are paying less than a PC in the long run. There will be no $150 here, $75 there, etc. type software repairs. Everything made for Mac works. It just works. And most of the programs you need are part of the OS making it unnecessary to buy additional software. For my office suite, I'm using office.org, which is actually free! and saves items to pdf without a separate program, as well as saving in M$ office format, as well as other programs. I just can't get into all the great things I've discovered! oh, DashBoard MUST be mentioned.... one click and I have my calendar, TV listings, weather, Whitepages, Yellow Pages, whois lookup, Dictionary, English <-> Spanish translator, and my choice of several other items as Widgets. Too much to mention, but those are my favorites that I uses often. A second click and I can take it to a webpage on that very item. Oh geez. You just gotta have a Mac to understand. There is so much to explain.
OKAY.... Now for the rest of the story:
Mac with the Intel chip allows you to run M$ Windoze either as a separate partition through Boot Camp, or through the Mac Interface via Parallels. Parallels itself allows full screen Windoze, Windowed Windoze, or even "Coherent Mode" which makes the applications appear to be running in Mac OS.
At this point (One month into the Intel iMac) I have not used Boot Camp, although I probably will some time in the future, since Parallels enables you to use your Windoze partition within the Mac OS.
I am currently using Parallels with win2K. Nothing has crashed in Mac OS, but the win2K had to be deleted and reinstalled. gee. Go figure. That is how I discovered the usefulness of the clone function. Now I have my clean win2K cloned so that I can "restore" to that point by simply deleting the win2K that corrupted and switching to the clone that works, should it crash again, which I suppose is inevitable. I will also remember to clone the clone so that I still have a clean version available.
I am using win2K because NTFS systems (not FAT) can read and be read by Mac using this method. I like being able to share my files between the two OS's.
Why do I even WANT to run windoze when I have a Mac?? It's silly, really. I am addicted to a couple of programs that I haven't found replacements on Mac yet. Still looking, but not yet found. One is Chuzzle. Another is Agent (the newsreader). Then Flexsite. And ThumbsPlus. I'm also running my Office 2000 on it in case something comes up that Office.org won't handle. So far not a problem, but you just never know.
I'm still not through the Mac for windoze users tour, but have learned lots of things, like the mighty mouse is not really a one button mouse. Duh. and if it were, how to navigate.
If I hadn't been making money repairing PC's I'd have switched long ago, but am actually glad I waited this long so I could see the benefit of using both systems on one machine.
