planning to switch,....

[bigfellow]

Gurus.. am planning to switch to mac but have things to consider first..... like can i use it on my existing LAN? can i use double OS?

thanks in advaNCE

[cyberprince]

Apples can easily connect to a PC-based local area network.

What do you mean by double OS? You can run windows on a mac using Virtual PC.

[bigfellow]

THANKS CYBerprince!... what i mean is having mac OS and windows...

[catrina]

yup you can! we do that at home since i am the only mac user

[pengski]

Switching to MAC?
This is one decision you wont regret!

Well, before getting one... ask yourself kung saan mo
sya gagamitin.
Home use/Hobby/Internet (iMacG5, eMAc)
Portability (PBook, iBook),
Biz (G5)

mac can be seen on any network...
Double OS on a MAC? You can run Virtual PC if you want.
If your PC has a Windows2000 or NT, Macs can see it and
vice-versa.

[cyberprince]

Well there you go. You can run Windows on Mac OSX but you will need Virtual PC which comes standalone or with the Professional Edition of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac.

Depending on your computer speed and the version of Windows you are trying to install there will probably be sluggish performance running the Windows OS.

[hannibal]

click on this link

it was specially made for potential switchers like you.

[Edited on 12-8-2004 by hannibal]

[PatrickGaerlan]

As cyberprince said, you can use Virtual PC to run Windows on a Mac. You will take a significant performance hit though. What kind of apps will you be using? There's a good chance that you'll be able to find native Mac OS X versions of those apps

[Edited on 12-8-2004 by PatrickGaerlan]

[longbeard]

Originally posted by bigfellow
Gurus.. am planning to switch to mac but have things to consider first..... like can i use it on my existing LAN? can i use double OS?

thanks in advaNCE

Which kind of MAC are you going to get?

[bigfellow]

as of now all office programs..... how about visual basic, can i run it on MAC?

thanks