[Shacs] switching to mac - need some advice

[ccheney at cheney.cx]

Bronius,

One thing to note, if you intend to virtualize Vista on MacOS,  
legally, you must use Vista Business or Ultimate. Microsoft had been  
considering removing the restriction from Vista Home but decided not  
to, at least the last I had heard. As far as grey areas go though you  
can run MacOS on a regular PC if you use the right patches. But that  
is probably as illegal as running Vista Home in a VM...

I think running Vista Home via Bootcamp is legal, but you should  
verify that if you are wanting to run Vista Home.

Chris

Quoting Bronius Motekaitis <bronius at bcswebstudio.com>:

> Thanks, all for your continued responses both on- and off-line.
> Dr B-- it's time to face the music and trade in that CPM w/320k 8" floppy
> for a mac.  I hear you can compile COBOL on them, too.
>
> Besides stability and funny marketing, the Apple looks and works very nicely
> out of the box.  For those problem spots,  Windows can still run under
> virtualization or on as its own boot.  It's just that if someone is waving a
> machine that can handle everything (and do it well) and one that does only
> one thing, it's kind of a no-brainer..  no skin off my back to accept the
> beefier box.
>
> -bronius