Re: [OT] Mac advice...

[Phillip Harris <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup - they support my strange habit even though they don't understand it...

Phil

On 9 Feb 2010, at 22:33, Darren Karp wrote:

> Thanks for coming out on the group. It must have been tough. Do your
pare=
nts
> know?
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Phillip Harris
> Sent: 09 February 2010 22:09
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Mac advice...
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> I=B9m Gay!
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> Well, I suspect I am...
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> ...It started with an iPod classic, then an iPod Touch, then an iPhone
(a=
nd
> another and another  I now have three, two in use and one =B3spare=B2
in =
case I
> drop one down the loo, ones already been in the bath and been dried
out
> successfully but I think if one ever has a swim in the loo then I
won=B9t=
be
> putting it to my ear again, hence the spare)...
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> ...the final nail in the high-altitude gardening coffin was the 17=B2
Mac=
book
> Pro a week ago.
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> Anyway  first thing I did was bootcamp the bugger and whack Windows on
it
> but that seemed perverse ... A bit like having a gorgeous girlfriend
but
> boffing her fat, speccy, soapdodging mate while the girlfriend was at
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k.
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> After nearly a fortnight I=B9ve installed Office for Mac trial version
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d am
> now looking at running Windows in a Virtual machine (there=B9s some
apps =
that
> I just cannot run under OSX unfortunately) ... Possibilities seem to
be
> VMWare and Parallels and it appears that VMWare will run several
OS=B9s
> (Windows, Linux) whereas Parallels seems to be Windows only.
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> So, getting back to my opening statement, if anyone has any
preferences
> between the two then I=B9d be most happy to know which way you swing
and
> why...
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> Cheers
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> Phil
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