Subj : buy a Mac, run Windows on it
To   : Warpslide
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jul 18 2021 20:07:00

Hello Warpslide!

** On Sunday 18.07.21 - 19:25, Warpslide wrote to August Abolins:

 W> She does "the books" for my uncle who's a plumber, so she
 W> mainly uses Office, Email & Quickbooks? (I think).  All of
 W> these programs are available for MacOS but they're "not the
 W> same".

Yes.. I've heard that there are subtle diffs in the Mac
versions of those progs. The differences can be annoying to  
someone used to the Windows versions.

 W> Then MacOS Catalina & then Big Sur came along and rendered
 W> some of the programs I was using useless, ...

But... did you *have* to upgrade to Catalina or Big Sur?  Why  
couldn't you stay with the last OS that supported all the Mac  
progs that you were used to using?


 W> one of them (Parallels) charges for each new version and I
 W> wasn't about to shell out another $80 ~seven months after
 W> buying the previous one, so I switched back to a PC (this
 W> X1 Carbon I'm using now) and got a pretty good price for
 W> the MacBook on Kijiji.


Places like https://softwarekeep.ca offer inexpensive versions  
of things like that.  I got a Win7 Pro 32bit for about $25 a  
few years ago.

Re: Win11 prelease..

 W> ..Last I looked there was a 32bit ISO available for
 W> download, but I haven't downloaded either to try them out.

I read about the 32bit too, but the MS links to it were gone by  
the time I heard about it.

The first thing I'd change is that crazy blue puffy thing they  
promote as the desktop background.

Anyway.. I'm sticking to Win7 on my meager PCs.

But.. it only if I could get that legacy iMac up and running,  
that would be sweet.

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