Switching to Apple Macbook Pro???

[Anonymous]

Hello, I am looking at switching to a Mac from a PC! Looking to get the new Mac Book pro 17". Has anyone out there got any tips or advice?
Would like to learn more about Apple, pros and cons. if any???
Any comments appreciated...

[Erich]

The rumor is that when we finally get Leopard (OSX 10.5) the reboot to get from one OS to the other will be a bit easier with a type of fast switching. I think this is Apple's way to try to compete with the virtualization options.

Still it is a bit unnatural to run Windoze on my Mac.

[TomWaltz]

Erich wrote:
The rumor is that when we finally get Leopard (OSX 10.5) the reboot to get from one OS to the other will be a bit easier with a type of fast switching. I think this is Apple's way to try to compete with the virtualization options.

Still it is a bit unnatural to run Windoze on my Mac.

This was listed on the Apple site for a while, then removed, so I would noot hold my breath for it.

[__archiben]

TomWaltz wrote:
This was listed on the Apple site for a while, then removed, so I would noot hold my breath for it.

yeah, but mr jobs demo'ed it at the developer conference recently. and mr jobs hates looking like a fool so i'm guessing that whether or not they're having problems with it, it WILL get fixed and released . . .

[Anonymous]

~/archiben wrote:

TomWaltz wrote:
This was listed on the Apple site for a while, then removed, so I would noot hold my breath for it.

yeah, but mr jobs demo'ed it at the developer conference recently. and mr jobs hates looking like a fool so i'm guessing that whether or not they're having problems with it, it WILL get fixed and released . . .

In the keynote he stated that Bootcamp will be built into Leopard and would remain the best choice for compatibility and performance, but will still require a reboot so Parallels and VMware will still beat it on convenience. The only real change is being built in rather than a beta download.

[__archiben]

Matthew wrote:
In the keynote he stated that Bootcamp will be built into Leopard and would remain the best choice for compatibility and performance, but will still require a reboot so Parallels and VMware will still beat it on convenience. The only real change is being built in rather than a beta download.

i seem to recall him saying that it actually puts the system you are using to sleep so that you can simply switch back to wake it. not like fast user switching, but far more convenient than parallels since you get native performance combined with fast 'startup' . . . maybe i was dreaming again?

ben

[Anonymous]

~/archiben wrote:

Matthew wrote:
In the keynote he stated that Bootcamp will be built into Leopard and would remain the best choice for compatibility and performance, but will still require a reboot so Parallels and VMware will still beat it on convenience. The only real change is being built in rather than a beta download.

i seem to recall him saying that it actually puts the system you are using to sleep so that you can simply switch back to wake it. not like fast user switching, but far more convenient than parallels since you get native performance combined with fast 'startup' . . . maybe i was dreaming again?

ben

I don't remember that bit, maybe I fell asleep. Would be nice though.

[Dwight]

Matthew wrote:
…maybe I fell asleep. Would be nice though.

Steve can certainly put me to sleep when he is treading water between new, revolutionary machine releases.

[Rakela Raul]

thanku very much matthew