OSX 10 - who dares?

[DaveB]

Windows users! Let's get together and wage Jihad against these OSX, Mac and other heretics! Behead!!

What? Again?

[d000hg]

So your specific point was that the latest versions of OS X stop supporting older hardware and older versions of Windows. Which is not true.

I'm sure it will be great consolation to the person who buys a new Mac and finds they now have to run Windows 8, that it's the hardware not the OS.

[DaveB]

I'm sure it will be great consolation to the person who buys a new Mac and finds they now have to run Windows 8, that it's the hardware not the OS.

Well if they hadn't bothered to check the thing they were buying would actually do what they wanted it to do it's pretty much their own fault. Like buying a cheap Windows laptop and being dissapointed it won't let you run multiple VM's on it.

[NickFitz]

I'm sure it will be great consolation to the person who buys a new Mac and finds they now have to run Windows 8, that it's the hardware not the OS.

Why would you buy new hardware and want to run an antiquated operating system on it?

Oh, of course, otherwise you'd have to run Windows 8 which is completely unusable

[d000hg]

Why would you buy new hardware and want to run an antiquated operating system on it?

Oh, of course, otherwise you'd have to run Windows 8 which is completely unusable

The whole point of BootCamp is to make Macs usable/useful to people in IT (or in general really)... and they use Windows7, the most widely used version of Windows. And hardly antiquated.

[SimonMac]

The whole point of BootCamp is to make Macs usable/useful to people in IT (or in general really)... and they use Windows7, the most widely used version of Windows. And hardly antiquated.

The point of Bootcamp is to allow the companies that are too lazy to make a OSX version of their software

If you want Windows, but a wintel machine, if you buy a Mac, use it as a Mac! I use a Mac, and the only piece of software I have not found a way to get working on Mac, or a suitable alternative is vCentre, and thats because they are moving to a web based application (although ClientCo refused to use it)

[MicrosoftBob]

Well if they hadn't bothered to check the thing they were buying would actually do what they wanted it to do it's pretty much their own fault. Like buying a cheap Windows laptop and being dissapointed it won't let you run multiple VM's on it.

They could always buy a windows machine run hyper V and run whatever operating systems they want on top even OS X, rather than run the Windows version Apple will allow them to

[eek]

The point of Bootcamp is to allow the companies that are too lazy to make a OSX version of their software

If you want Windows, but a wintel machine, if you buy a Mac, use it as a Mac! I use a Mac, and the only piece of software I have not found a way to get working on Mac, or a suitable alternative is vCentre, and thats because they are moving to a web based application (although ClientCo refused to use it)

What's a decent visio replacement?

[d000hg]

The point of Bootcamp is to allow the companies that are too lazy to make a OSX version of their software

No, that's Parallels et al. BootCamp is for more heavy-duty use.

Although these days less and less requires it, virtualisation tech is incredible.

[stek]

The point of Bootcamp is to allow the companies that are too lazy to make a OSX version of their software

If you want Windows, but a wintel machine, if you buy a Mac, use it as a Mac! I use a Mac, and the only piece of software I have not found a way to get working on Mac, or a suitable alternative is vCentre, and thats because they are moving to a web based application (although ClientCo refused to use it)

Fusion Pro can do a basic vsphere...