Originally Posted by
Jim Becker
That's a darn nice machine, Keith. I've been doing the Parallels thing for awhile now; it allowed me to do BYOD for work and stop having so many issues that came with the corporate provided laptops (including not replacing them soon enough...) and also to support programs like CutList Plus and Quicken on my personal machines. I've now moved to the latest version of Quicken for Mac that's actually functional at this point, so Windows is only used for Cutlist and now the Vectric software I'm learning.
My younger daughter ponied up a few bucks of her own three years ago for a Macbook Air to replace the tiny (and horrible) netbook she used during middle school and as a freshman in HS. She's now using it at Penn State and it will likely stay with her for all four years and beyond.
W’appen? We all buy iMacs at the same time, all still running. My mid-2010 iMac runs to this day though I did have a head crash in the spring. Installed a new terrabyte drive and she runs on. Back-ups are your friend.
On the Parallels front, I suggest you look into Amazon WorkSpace (AWS). I ran Parallels for a couple years and ... it worked. AWS was installed on both my work Macbook Pro and my work iPad. It seems faster and less “clunky” than the parallels. There are some statistical programs and visualization software that isn’t Mac friendly yet.
Shawn
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