[Hidden-tech] Is buying a used PC worth it?

[Will Loving]

Dennis,

Bootcamp is not ³make believe² nor is it an emulation program like
Parallels, VMWare or Virtual Box; it does exactly what you did ­ make a
separate bootable partition - except that it save you a lot of time and
trouble by doing the drive partitioning for you without having to re-format
your entire drive. The BootCamp Assistant also helps with installing drivers
for certain bits of Mac hardware such as the multi-touch trackpad and video
card that the default Windows installer may not have natively.

If you don¹t need the full processing power for what you are doing on the
Windows side ­ and certainly QuickBooks fits that description ­ then using
one of the emulators is a fine way to go and has the additional advantages
of not having to reboot, drag and drop between Mac and Win partitions, etc.

Regarding using a Mac as a PC, there are definitely people who feel that ³a
Mac is the best PC you can buy². I have a friend in Australia who just
bought a 27² iMac. He does web development and works almost exclusively in
Windows. He reformatted the HD with a 50GB partition for Mac and left the
rest for Windows where he does the bulk of his work. He loves his new
machine.

Will

Will Loving, President
Dedication Technologies, Inc.


on 3/25/10 6:16 PM, dennis at yourbrandpartnership.com at
dennis at yourbrandpartnership.com wrote:

> Is buying a used PC worth it? No.
> 
> Hey guys here is another possibility.
> A Mac is a PC - before it's programmed. You can install Windows on a Mac - not
> that you would really want to.
> 
> I was having problems with several of the PC emulation programs (Bootcamp and
> VMWare) on the mac and didn't want to carry 2 laptops. (All my major software
> and work is on the Mac) I also needed to access a clients server which was PC
> based and it would not recognize the Mac.
> 
> I did the following as a "workaround".
> I know this is kind of a pain but once it was done I never had another
> problem.
>  I copied my Mac HD on a separate drive then, erased it. I reinitialized it
> with 2 partitions (Labeled PC & MAC) with the PC using just a small portion (3
> GB) of the hard drive. I loaded all the necessary PC software I needed on the
> PC drive and put all my Mac contents back in the Mac partition.
> 
> When I boot up, it automatically boots as a Mac. If I reboot holding down the
> "C" I get 2 drives to choose from. I can choose the PC and walla, it boots up
> in Windows.  Two operation systems. One laptop. The best of the Mac and best
> of the PC. (Not "make believe PC like Bootcamp")
> 
> While in Windows on the PC I can drag files to a folder that copy's onto the
> Mac drive but cannot do it the other way.
> 
> I have "Office" on both partitions (drives) so MS files are interchangeable.
> (The clients server files are all "Office" modules)
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Dennis Kunkler, Partner
> Grow My Company
> Your Brand Partnership
> 
> 
> Dennis at GrowMyCo.com <mailto:Dennis at GrowMyCo.com>
> http://growmyco.typepad.com/
>  
> Dennis at YourBrandPartnership.com <mailto:Dennis at YourBrandPartnership.com>
> 
> 
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>> I was told that I should get a PC to use for QuickBooks since the Apple
>> version is not that great. Any suggestions on the cheapest way I can get a
>> used PC that is reliable? I will only be using it for the current  version of
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