Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ErikRS Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Windows 7? Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 16:15:42 +0200 Organization: solani.org Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: solani.org 1400163342 9417 eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXhtiC5wiV/09YAqexYxPcGIzX3KwMx5LdoTKPvmbEvOV61S1gDCidBn8teBHV (15 May 2014 14:15:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 14:15:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Firefox/16.0 SeaMonkey/2.13.2 X-User-ID: eJwFwYkBwCAIA8CVCE+04wg2+4/gXQXBWclilkptJzRKrjnCdo3vOw1cFWURnQ5s+y2+8dYDMPoReQ== In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:EYD0gi8/8wrCKa7g27XPqLfVbz0= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwNwocRwDAIBLCVgp86DsXsP4JzkkBJ21hFWfYHnGxrocqkmSgv3L0fq6Id5LOw2TMRdNofJ1gRYw== Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:59359 Puffin Killer wrote: > "ErikRS" wrote in message news:ll2fio$van$1@solani.org... >> Sadly I'll need to have a Windows 7 Home Ultimate installation on my >> MacPro1.1 Xeon Quad 4x3,0ghz (prod. Summer 07), but infact I'm a bit >> confused which version to choose or not. - It will be installed as a >> virtual machine using Paralles Desktop 6.x which I already have >> bought. Some say 32bits, some 64bits... > >> Which version should I buy - 32bits or 64bits? > > You have a Mac. Why in the world would you need Windows? Two reasons... 1. I have some applications that will only run on Windows. Until now=20 I've been running XPPro on my other MacPro - also in a VM. 2. I still test software especially for visually and reading impaired=20 that donot run on Mac OS X. I know I could buy a cheap Win-box to do the testing, but since I myself = a.m.o. need to use ZoomView it'll be easier - and cheaper - for me to=20 use a VM on the MacPro. - If I should buy a similar enlargement tool for = Windows, it will be very expensive... Cheers, Erik Richard --=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard S=F8rensen, Member of ADC, NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~