Macs - for business, pleasure or both?
On The Apple Blog, they raise the question whether or not Macs are for business and with the advent of cool modifications to the Macintosh like Apple Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop for Mac allowing you to run Windows. But this also leads to more execs seeing the awesome power of Macs in their native form, not just with Windows. And this is good because I would say that to get a mac to use it exclusively for Windows is a sin against your Mac.
Macs are for MY Business - which just happens to be pleasure as well. I use my mac for web design, web development and everything that I can get away with doing so. In fact, I try to use as many Mac-native apps as possible so I don’t have to use Parallels as much. This means using Vienna, TextMate, Mail, Transmit and other apps to do my mac shit. And I am proud to do so because Microsoft is the anti-christ. But that does not mean that I do not run Windows on my Mac. When I figured out that I could not sell that copy of Windows I have to another PC minion, basically - I installed it on my computer and installed a couple of computer games (Neverwinter Nights 2 and NyxsisRO) as well as downloaded the latest versions of BitWine and Kasamba.
I also purchased Parallels Desktop for Mac and I run Debian Linux and my Boot Camp Windows partition on it. This has proven to be invaluable to test how a certain website looks in Windows, Linux and all the browsers that exist for them. It allows me to look at how it would look in Konqueror or Internet Explorer at the same time and the ability to do that is very awesome as you do not need different computers to do this.
Basically, I would rather run Windows on a Mac than on a PC because if Windows goes down as it is prone to do, you have access to all the files on your Windows installation. You have the power to pull all your important files off to do a fresh format and reinstall of XP or Vista (whatever your flavour of Windows is). In other words, you can use Mac OS X as your failsafe to ensure that your files are always safe. Well, unless the hard drive fails but that’s a problem that both Mac and PC users suffer.
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