HOLY TOLDEO, Dayglored, I am thrilled with your response. I am now almost computer semi-literate as a result of that information.
Now that I know it can be done, I’ll contact the president of the local Mac Users Group.
THANK you for taking the time to help.
Who’s Saint TOLDEO?
Actually, I'm over to the east somewhat, in very UNHOLY Ithaca NY, the City of Evil.
> Now that I know it can be done, I’ll contact the president of the local Mac Users Group.
Great idea!
> THANK you for taking the time to help.
My pleasure.
As it happens, I'm setting up a Mac Mini with Boot Camp for my wife (actually my ex, never mind, it's complicated) because she needs both Mac and Windows and wants only one computer.
BTW, in the interest of completeness: Boot Camp is not the only way to combine Mac and Windows on the same computer.
There is a way to run a copy of Windows WITHIN Mac OS X, such that they are both running at the same time. That's called "virtualization"; products by VMware and Parallels make it possible. It's more complex and more costly than Boot Camp, but has some advantages for the technically advanced.
If after you've done the Boot Camp thing for a while, you decide you'd like to try running Windows INSIDE of Mac OS X, give me a holler and I'll send you some pointers. You can use the same Windows license in a VM (virtual machine) that you use in Boot Camp, so the only additional cost would be the VMware software, which is about $75.
But for the time being, given your application, I recommend you take the more straightforward (i.e. simpler) path of trying out Boot Camp.
Good luck!