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Talkback: Is Mac with virtual Windows hard to resist?

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Feb 28, 20071 min

In One PC switcher’s tale, InfoWorld columnist and chief technologist Tom Yager tells of a friend he converted to a hybrid Mac-PC (via Parallels) machine:

“[I] told her that if she chose to keep using Windows, even indefinitely, I’d make sure that was easy for her. Yet I also explained that I had made it just as easy to explore the Mac platform, and that she couldn’t damage Windows or OS X by experimenting with either one.”

Will she make the switch? Stay tuned, he writes.

I suppose price will always be a factor, with PC desktops dirt cheap and laptops hovering around $800 (not as well-equipped, I know, Mac fans.) But With Parallels’ update of its feature-rich Desktop virtualization software final as of yesterday, as one solid option… why would she, or some businesses for that matter, not, given the ability to have one machine be either Mac or PC, or both, based on their employee’s needs?

Is Mac set for a big boost ahead?

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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