RE: iMac anyone any advice

David

I went with VMWare Fusion…works great. Of course you’ll also need a licensed version of windows…I went with XP rather than Vista.

Bill

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From: David Owen email@hidden
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:51 AM
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Subject: Re: iMac anyone any advice

OK the new iMac has arrived.

Before I rush to use Migration Assistant, has anyone got any advice about installing Windows for viewing PC sites?

e.g. what’s best, is it going to be BootCamp? Parallels? VMWare?

or not bother and get a cheap PC laptop?

Anyone been here before?

David


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+2 for VMWare. The lovely Dr. Davis and I both run it, she uses it to run an esoteric bit of practice-management-ware, I use it to look at sites and weep. Both with XP Pro.

Also resist the urge to upgrade to IE7, as 6 fails in interesting and useful ways and still has enormous ill-gotten market share. Of course, you could always clone your virtual machine (given enough disk space) and install IE7 on a separate VM.

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That interesting - We’ve already got an IE6 box here, which I’ve used to test sites, so perhaps there is not much benefit for adding essentially just IE7 to a new mac?

On 25 Sep 2008, at 15:11, waltd wrote:

Also resist the urge to upgrade to IE7, as 6 fails in interesting and useful ways and still has enormous ill-gotten market share. Of course, you could always clone your virtual machine (given enough disk space) and install IE7 on a separate VM.

David Owen

I run both IE6 and IE7 on my Windows machine here.
Take a look at: http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone

b8

Op 25 sep 2008, om 16:27 heeft David Owen het volgende geschreven:

That interesting - We’ve already got an IE6 box here, which I’ve used to test sites, so perhaps there is not much benefit for adding essentially just IE7 to a new mac?

On 25 Sep 2008, at 15:11, waltd wrote:

Also resist the urge to upgrade to IE7, as 6 fails in interesting and useful ways and still has enormous ill-gotten market share. Of course, you could always clone your virtual machine (given enough disk space) and install IE7 on a separate VM.

David Owen


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