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Friday, July 11, 2008

Making the switch to the Mac

Recently, I decided I was fed up with Vista as a desktop operating system and decided to make the switch to the Mac. My fiance has a Macbook which I was able to play with in order to make sure that my applications and ability to actually do my job would not be impeded by my conversion. Two applications from VMWare really help to make the transition as seamless as possible, and I would like to sing their praises to give you a better idea as what they actually do.

The first product is the free VM Converter application. This application allows you to take any Microsoft operating system that is loaded on a machine and convert it to a virtual machine image. Imagine that you had a lot of applications installed on your laptop, some that may not work with Mac but you want to use a shiny new MacBook Pro. Just convert your machine to a virtual image, copy it to your laptop and then run the virtual machine and all of your favorite applications just like you did on your old hardware. The application is simple to install and is very user-friendly in guiding you through the conversion process.

The second product is cheap (around $20 on some websites) which is called VM Fusion. Fusion is an application that you install on your Mac that allows you to run and create various operating systems such as XP, Vista and Linux. Once you have copied your image from the VM Converter process, simply launch it via Fusion on your Mac which works great with OS X. You can NAT or Bridge your network connection, share and use USB 2.0 devices and also enable sound. There is experimental DirectX 9 support so that you can play some of your favorite Windows games without dual booting your Mac to go into Windows which is a big plus for those that don't want to reboot every time to run Windows applications.

Making the switch to a Mac can be a bit overwhelming and confusing at first, but once you go Mac you won't go back!

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