[BNM] the horror - wanted, windoze laptop

[Joe Aliferis]

the Intel Mac is powerful and versatile machine

I run OSX 10.4, WinXP SP2 and Ubuntu on mine

Either individually or all at the same time !

hard to criticise a piece of hardware as good as the blackBook

Joe


shardcore wrote:
> Yes, I had considered that, but I know that once I've handed the  
> machine to my wife, I'll never see it again - and I have a particular  
> affection for my BlackBook, which only fellow mac users will  
> understand - the love that dare not speak its name [or at least the  
> love that tends to keep quiet on BNM lists for fear of prompting a  
> flame war ;) ]
>
>
> On 10 Jan 2008, at 11:00, Joe Aliferis wrote:
>
>   
>> use Apples 'Bootcamp'
>>
>> Its not VMware - its a separate partition on your HD, FAT (or NTFS)
>> formatted, with XP installed
>>
>> Bootcamp provides the setup environment and the translation drivers  
>> for
>> the mac hardware
>>
>> Its like 2 computers inside one
>>
>> I have VMware installed too, in the MacOS - but have it configured to
>> use the Bootcamp partition
>>
>> Requires an Intel mac tho
>>
>> joe
>>
>>
>> ]
>>
>> shardcore wrote:
>>     
>>> After living for five blissful years with only linux and OS X to keep
>>> me company, my wife has just got a job with the OU, and their  
>>> software
>>> is Windows only...
>>>
>>> I've long since dispensed with all my windoze machines, and  
>>> apparently
>>> this particular OU app uses a USB authentication key which doesn't
>>> play well with Parallels, so the Macbook is out too [not that I'm  
>>> keen
>>> to sully it with Microsoft anyway].
>>>
>>> So the question is this - does anyone have an old windows laptop
>>> they'd like to sell? - the software [E-Prime] spec says it'll run on
>>> anything post Windows 98 [i.e. Windows 2000, XP, ME, Vista *shudder*]
>>>
>>> I don't think it needs to be particularly high spec, just anything
>>> that'll run windows 2000 without too much complaint, ideally with wi-
>>> fi, or a PCMCIA slot to put a card in. Obviously the cheaper the
>>> better :)
>>>
>>> Please contact me off-list if you have something genuine to offer -
>>> all other sarcastic commentary can remain here on BNM...
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> shardcore
>>>
>>> http://www.shardcore.org
>>> shardcore at shardcore.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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