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To: Vendome; PugetSoundSoldier
> I just read about the Macbook Air and after I read about the Slate thought “Why would I want a Slate?”.

Good question. Suppose what you really want is access to Win7 as well as OS-X?

Get a Macbook Air with 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD, and VMware Fusion, and run Win7 in a VM -- best of both worlds for less than the cost of both separately.

Or skip the VMware, and BootCamp the SSD. Now with OSX 10.6, the BootCamp drivers for Win7 permit reading the OS-X partition from Windows (and vice versa as before) which is really handy.

10 posted on 10/21/2010 10:54:34 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

yeah but you know I don’t think I would even VMWare, well maybe for a few games but I’ll live.

Anyway, I am using MS Office and I would just use the compatibility mode of Apple OS and it should run fine. Wouldn’t it?

The rest of the software I use is shareware/freeware and everyone makes Apple compatibles.

I don’t think I would need to invest in VM but if I did, it would still be fine.


11 posted on 10/21/2010 11:26:24 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: dayglored

I wonder if I could run Mac on the Slate the way I run it on my Toshiba?


15 posted on 10/22/2010 12:05:31 AM PDT by Defiant (I'm a Fabian Co nstitutionalist. Roll back FDR and progressivism!)
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