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[Donna Marie Vincent]

I went to CompUSA on my lunch hour and was ready to buy a MacBook (not Pro) with extra RAM, but they were out of stock.

But I did get some important info from the salesperson -- to boot up with Windows, or emulate Windows, you need to buy a Windows license, which is another $150.  They also had something else for $99 that they said I would need to use all the features of something or other on the Mac.

Mac is so out of my $$ league!  This is a Mercedes and I can only afford a Metrocard.  :-(



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From: "bz-gmort at beezifies.com" <bz-gmort at beezifies.com>
To: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 2:03:29 PM
Subject: Re: [joomla] IE6 & Vista --> was Paypal Developer Da

Donna Marie Vincent wrote:
> I have been considering a Mac for the first time because I really
 don't 
> want to go with Vista, but I'm concerned about the learning curve.
  I've 
> been using Windows since v3.1 (1993).  Can an old dog learn Mac
 without 
> losing productivity?
> 

If I had a large budget to blow on a new system, it would be a macbook.

With the new systems, you can boot XP, you can boot Vista, you can boot
 
Mac, and you can boot Linux.

So you don't need to learn any new tricks, you can start off with dual 
boot into XP and try out the Mac as you have time.

The biggest benefit I see is with a Mac, you have the ability to test 
browsers from all 3 operating systems(Windows, Mac, and Linux) on one 
platform.

That said, I didn't have the budget for a Macbook, so I went with a 
refurb Dell and have been cursing Vista every since.
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