Host: Stu Helm Panelists: Oli Williamson, Paul Shadwell, Evan Montgomery, Rob Hanson
Switcher Stories How to Choose Your First Mac - Good for an introductory desktop
- Refurbished & Second Hand bargains to be had - Do your research on eBay though - Buyer Beware!
- need to provide your own keyboard, mouse, and screen
- iMac
- Excellent desktop replacement
- Gives the 'Full Apple Experience' as opposed to Mac Mini with other screen etc
- Macbook
- A great starter machine if you ever need to take your computer off the desk
- Can power an external display if you need a bigger screen
- MacBook Pro
- Quite expensive as a starter machine, but will take all you can throw at it and handle it with ease
- bigger screen than Macbook helps to make it a viable desktop replacement if you don't want two computers
- Bootcamp - Windows takes over the hardware & becomes a Windows machine
- Virtualisation - 3 flavours
- Virtual Box - by Sun Microsystems & free
- Parallels -
- Fusion - by VM Ware, probably ahead of the curve in the Virtualisation arena
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