Windows on mac?

[gazbenger]

My dads asked me to find out whether using windows on a mac is easy to use as hes considering buying a macbook, but uses Outlook and MS office frequently. Ive seen software which allows windows on macs but dont know if it slows the whole system down?
Any info is great
cheers

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Very easy and I've been told it's more stable then running it on a PC as well.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

 

[sn00p]

You can get office 2008 for mac. Includes microsoft entourage which is the mac equivalent of outlook.

Or use vmware fusion or parallels for running windows while in OS X.

 

[Daz]

Very easy and I've been told it's more stable then running it on a PC as well.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

It's identical. The only difference is that there's only one set of drivers for the hardware.. not a million and one bad drivers around

Parallels for virtualisation.
Bootcamp for proper.

Mum has a new iMac, and it runs Bootcamp 24/7 running Vista.. works perfectly.
I found BootCamp on my MBP daft though, mainly down to right click etc. I was really hoping they'd implement double tap on the track pad as right click, but they didn't (not sure if they have now though?).

 

[A13EX F Trophy No70]

office for mac is no different to office on a pc and there's no need to worry about having no right mouse button as you can press the comand button on the keyboard while clicking which is the same as a right mouse click

 

[Brad182]

office for mac is no different to office on a pc and there's no need to worry about having no right mouse button as you can press the comand button on the keyboard while clicking which is the same as a right mouse click

What a legend, got my frst mac last week (MBP) and I couldn't work out about the right click!

Thanks!

 

[Tom]

Configure the touchpad to support multi finger clicking.

Using a trackpad, place two fingers on the trackpad and click the trackpad button.

 

[Darren S]

office for mac is no different to office on a pc and there's no need to worry about having no right mouse button as you can press the comand button on the keyboard while clicking which is the same as a right mouse click

Ewww. That just sounds wrong...... :rasp:

D.

 

[ChrisPearson]

Hmm that would be annoying when trying to right click.Am i right in thinking the parellel isnt vista its just virtual vista?

 

[ChrisPearson]

bootcamp comes with leopard doesnt it but is there any way to get it on tiger?:S

 

[Brown.]

i got office for my mac from torrents .......also new mac's have a program called bootcamp, that will partition the drive to allow windows installation....you have to hold down a certain key on start up to swap between the two OS else it will boot up mac every time.

 

[Brown.]

office for mac is no different to office on a pc and there's no need to worry about having no right mouse button as you can press the comand button on the keyboard while clicking which is the same as a right mouse click

Ewww. That just sounds wrong...... :rasp:

D.

or you can use a normal mouse with a mac and keep the right click, as i am doing now with my wireless mousie

oh and how could i forget, there is now HASH key on a mac

 

[ChrisPearson]

i got office for my mac from torrents .......also new mac's have a program called bootcamp, that will partition the drive to allow windows installation....you have to hold down a certain key on start up to swap between the two OS else it will boot up mac every time.

Yeh but can you get it seperatly for tiger?

 

[sn00p]

Ewww. That just sounds wrong...... :rasp:

D.

or you can use a normal mouse with a mac and keep the right click, as i am doing now with my wireless mousie

oh and how could i forget, there is now HASH key on a mac

eh? There's always been one! Apple+3

 

[Rasclart]

Very easy and I've been told it's more stable then running it on a PC as well.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

It's identical. The only difference is that there's only one set of drivers for the hardware.. not a million and one bad drivers around

Parallels for virtualisation.
Bootcamp for proper.

Mum has a new iMac, and it runs Bootcamp 24/7 running Vista.. works perfectly.
I found BootCamp on my MBP daft though, mainly down to right click etc. I was really hoping they'd implement double tap on the track pad as right click, but they didn't (not sure if they have now though?).

This pisses me off also on my Mac book (Not Pro). It does run very well indeed. Only thing I notice is that it runs MEGA hot compared to OSX. Also sometimes the USB driver goes mental and pings like made at me. THis is with the latest drivers as well.

However you can run MS office suite withing OSX this would be my choice