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To: Keith Feral who wrote (69811)	10/8/2007 1:17:36 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213183

>>I'm glad I don't have to support VM or Parallel, since the Boot Camp will be free on Leopard. That's another $79 I would prefer to use on a second monitor. This all makes me very happy for Apple's forward guidance beyond the hype of the iPhone.<< Keith - Your enthusiasm for Macs is great. And you are certainly correct that the iPhone isn't the only thing driving Apple's earnings right now. As for saving the $79 for Parallels or VMWare, I hate to disappoint you, but Boot Camp will not give you the ability to run in the dual-screen configuration you are envisioning. It allows you to set up a separate disk partition for Windows and to boot into Windows if you want to. So you then have a choice of booting into Windows or OS X, but you can't run both at the same time. Sorry. - Allen

To: Keith Feral who wrote (69811)	10/8/2007 1:34:47 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213183

Keith - I just thought I'd show you what I mean about being able to run IE alongside your Mac applications using Parallels. This works the same way in VMWare. Here are two screenshots, showing how I have IE open on my Mac, right next to Safari. In one, Safari is in the foreground, and one has IE in front. The IE window acts like any other application window on the Mac would, though it has the Windows controls in the upper right. Safari in front: IE in front: It seems to me that using a dual monitor config, running one OS on one monitor and one on the other gives you almost the same thing as having two computers, except that you only have one keyboard and mouse. Why not just have one big monitor, and let your application windows intermingle like this? By the way, you can configure Parallels (or VMWare) to show the Windows Taskbar at the bottom of your screen if you want to. If I'm only running one Windows app, that seems unnecessary. If I have more than one, I can get the Taskbar back with two clicks of the mouse. - Allen

To: Keith Feral who wrote (69811)	10/8/2007 2:24:22 AM
From: Doren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213183

Keith, the fact that a guy as tech savvy as you didn't know this stuff is a very VERY good reason to invest and makes me feel much safer. It's one of two reasons I invested. I feel that there is still a huge pool of people who are completely frustrated with PCs but are unaware there is a way better alternative. This is where the money is. As these people become aware how versatile Macs are they will want to buy into the stock. Since most of us are loathe to sell they will have to offer us A LOT for our shares! : v ) Seriously though, eventually if there is a large enough base of Linux and Mac users Microsoft's sloppy proprietary codes will become huge liabilities to businesses and Microsoft itself. Businesses will be burned so badly they are going to turn away from proprietary code. Since Linux and Apple are far more open source oriented both will benefit as will their users. It's a no brainer. Especially when you consider 3rd world countries gradually coming online using Linux. At that point you can toss that stinky old Windows OS forever.