jps wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:12:28 -0500, hk wrote:

Well, they both work very well, and as far as I am concerned, it is a
half dozen of one and six of the other.

The Apple Mac OS is a little more to my liking, now that I am sort of
used to it, but there are still areas where I think the Apple system is
just too cute. Also, there is some software, not much of it, that is
important to me and only runs on a PC and may not like running under an
emulator.

So, after I got my Mac, I installed in turn the two major PC emulator
suites that run on a Mac as virtual machines. Both work OK, and I tended
to like VMware Fusion a bit better. But while in emulator mode, there
were still one or two programs that simply would not work on an emulated
PC.

Last week, a buddy who runs the same software suggested I dump the
emulators and run Apple's Boot Camp. I did. Now, I boot up my Mac in
either Apple Mac OS or MS Vista, and while in VISTA everything I need to
work works just fine. Eureka, as Sarah Palin's great-great grandfather,
Thomas Edison, used to exclaim.

There's no real downside to Boot Camp that I have noticed so far. I know
there are some PC few apps that may cause it trouble, but I am not
running any. All the hardware works fine. And to reboot in Vista takes
no longer than starting up one of the emulators and then XP or VISTA.
Shutting down VISTA in Boot Camp is faster than shutting down the emulators.

VISTA runs like greased lightning in Boot Camp. Got a 5.+ in the built
in ratings.

So, if you are thinking of moving to a Mac and have PC software you
need, the chances are it will run ok in Windows under Boot Camp. The
Apple site has knowledge base articles on what software is troublesome.

Sometime this month, my new Mac desktop will be up and running and my
last PC desktop will be running server software.

I have an older 20" G5 the kids use so can't use Boot Camp. Wish I
could. Nothing but PCs in the rest of the house.

My first computer was a "Fat" Mac in 1984, one floppy drive, no HD.
Several months later I upgraded to the external floppy drive. It's
incredible what's happened in 25 years.

A friend recently showed me the Mac OS running on his pc via Ubuntu.
Very cool.

You sure it was the Mac OS and not a tricked up Linux "face"?

I've got a half dozen apps that run well on PCs but so far as I can tell
have no real Mac alternatives. So, that's why I installed a fresh
version of VISTA on my Mac. When I am running VISTA under Boot Camp, it
is (or seems as it is) exactly like running VISTA alone. There are a
couple of keyboard combos that are different, but everything else is
nominal, so far.