My MacOSX upgrade thoughts

It’s no secret I’m in love with MacOSX for many years already, however I do not have a Mac OS at the moment. The only reason why is: money, and that I need to have Microsoft Windows for a certain set of applications.

What if I had the required money? Would a buy a Mac? Myeah, if it had a touchscreen I would. Regretfully it doesn’t. So what am I supposed to do? Buy the Samsung NC10 netbook, couple it with a Touchscreen kit and get the less legal MacOSX86 with the whole bunch compatibility issues? And thus losing the greatest advantage of the MacOSX platform (no frigging tweaking required)? Maybe …

Or buy a Mac Mini with a 22″ 3M Touchscreen? Twice the cost, but 4 times the power in speed. And speed is nice when running WinXP in Parallels Desktop. “Why stuck with Windows”, you might ask? Well because of:

• several proprietary .NET applications. Update: a solution might be found in Mono?

• MSN Messenger webcam? A I’ve got that problem covered in using Mercury!

 
Then again … I have a Vista business laptop which runs all the Windows software. And I only need a Macintosh to enhance my multimedia studio @ home. Hmz … the choice is easy really, yet my IT brain is curious about the possibilities

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• Nomadlist.com since 2022-04
• Empire.Kred since 2021-07
• Karma-Lab.com since 2019-01
• Invision Community since 2018-05
• Insanely Mac since 2018-02
• eGPU.io since 2017-04
• Tech Inferno since 2016-08
• forum.VestaCP.com since 2016
• WordPress.org since 2015-12
• Couch Surfing since 2014

• BitcoinTalk.org since 2014-03
• Warrior Forum since 2013-07
• Empire Avenue since 2013
• forum.OSXLatitude.com since 2011-08
• Envato (i.e. CodeCanyon) since 2011-07
• TripAdvisor since 2010-09
• MoneyMakerGroup.com since 2007-03
• HardWare.info since 2003-08
• SynthForum.NL since 2001-11
• gathering.tweakers.net since 2000-11

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