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Bootcamp or Parallels for business? - will2000 - 12-11-2006
After being denied a couple of times, it looks like my company will finally go for a new 'Book. They would really like me to get a PC, but I assured the boss that I can get a MacBook, and "use it " as a PC.
There seems to be a lot of people here that prefer Parallels, but I wonder if in my situation Bootcamp is better. I no longer do design work for the company, so it's basically MS Office. They want me using Outlook instead of Entourage, and I have to use ACT! Premium for Workgroups, and Crystal Reports on a limited basis.
Feel free to talk me out of it.
Now I need to show that I can get a Mac for about the same price as a HP, Lenovo or Dell.
Re: Bootcamp or Parallels for business? - M A V I C - 12-11-2006
Why not both?
Re: Bootcamp or Parallels for business? - Seacrest - 12-11-2006
The next version of Parallels will enable booting directly from a BootCamp partition.
So you can use the Mac OS and Parallels most of the time, but when you need to reboot into dedicated Windows mode, you can do that, too.
Re: Bootcamp or Parallels for business? - C(-)ris - 12-11-2006
If you have to use bootcamp you are going to loose your argument. You will always be able to get something cheaper from Dell, Gateway, etc. than you will for apple. Windows isn't going to run any better on Apple hardware.
If you use Parallels, you are going to have to figure out how to set up all the configurations yourself. However, if you aren't going to be using any design or Mac only applications what is the point?
IMO you want a Mac for the coolness, not because you actually need one.
Re: Bootcamp or Parallels for business? - anonymouse1 - 12-11-2006
What Seacrest said.
Re: Bootcamp or Parallels for business? - Silencio - 12-11-2006
What C(-)ris said. Sorry.
Re: Bootcamp or Parallels for business? - Seacrest - 12-11-2006
What Chris said as well as far as that goes.
Re: Bootcamp or Parallels for business? - $tevie - 12-11-2006
I have to agree with C(-)ris. I pitched a big hissy when they took away my Mac and gave me a Dell. And they had to relent and give me back a Mac because I deal with graphics files from various free lance designers who are all on Macs, and we were having too many problems trying to cross platforms all the time.
But honestly, for Office and for Crystal Reports (don't know about ACT!), you might as well be using a PC notebook. I still do all that on my Dell even though I have an intel iMac, because after all Windows is what it was made for and it works just fine for that stuff.
The money you save can go towards making sure the PC has all the bells and whistles you might wish for on it. A "Mac for about the same price as a HP, Lenovo or Dell" is going to have to be bare bones I would guess.
Re: Bootcamp or Parallels for business? - The UnDoug - 12-11-2006
Don't you just hate it when your parade gets rained on?
I hate making posts where I'm excited about something and expect others to share in my joy--or at least not put a damper on it--and then you get this kind of response.
Oh, the humanity!
Re: Bootcamp or Parallels for business? - will2000 - 12-11-2006
OK, I get the point. Maybe I should stop fighting it after all these years and make it easy for IT and the VPs I deal with. In that case, I don't even have to shopping since our IT manager will do it.