A bright future?
I've done it! Finally I've committed myself (ourselves) to a path of new technology that I've recently been advising others to seriously consider. I call it new technology because I've always been using stuff, which, to all those readers that stay up to date with current technology, is considered a little out of date. Particularly when one considers I'm in the information technology industry. Scary, isn't it!
So what is it?
A couple of weeks back I took the opportunity to take out a 6 month interest free period to purchase an Apple iMac 20" Core Duo. No, I'm not deserting my historically favourite operating system of Linux in favour of Mac OS X. After all, it's Unix at the core (no pun intended, ;-) ). Our machines are Windows 2000, both of which are pretty old by all accounts, but have served us well indeed.
This new baby is NEW! And the Intel based iMac Core Duo begs to have multiple operating systems running on it. Apple recently introduced Boot Camp beta application which allows these new Intel systems to run in dual OS mode. That is, users can repartition the drive and install Windows XP. But, why desecrate a Mac with Windows? There is a valid argument, to some extent.
Although most of my working stuff will be capably handled by Mac OS X, I do have the odd Windows based application that I rely on, namely, Microsoft Money, and some of my Palm T|X Desktop applications.
The other route avoiding the potentially painful task of partitioning the hard drive is making use of Parallels. Parallels uses virtualisation technology to create Virtual Machines of alternative operating systems. Time will tell which route we go.
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Comments
macs are great step forward, but a little price difference in the red but all worth it
nice to hear from you keith
love
craig,chrissie, kara and jonathan
Posted by: craig JOUBERT | April 30, 2007 09:32 PM