Have you shaken the Windows addiction?
 
Yes, Mac OS X all the way, baby! Windows? *ptui!* 114 59.38%
No, I still need Windows around. 78 40.63%
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Old 19-07-2008, 09:22 AM
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We're a mac only household.....no WindowsOS anywhere (I do use XP at work but I don't get the choice).

For gaming I have a PSP.
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Old 19-07-2008, 09:53 AM
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...or do you still pay reluctant homage to MS for the odd game or mission critical Windows-only app?
Mission critical work apps like Primavera P3, SureTrak, MS Project on XP via Parallels here.
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Games ??? Do they make games for computers ??? Wow, I must take a look at that sometime.
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Old 19-07-2008, 10:11 AM
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Although I have Bootcamp and VMware Fusion, I simply don't use it that often. The only compelling reason for me to do so is for torrents. For some reason that nobody seems able to explain, uTorrent in Bootcamp (not in VMware), runs *much* faster than any other BT client I've tried, and I've tried most of them.

Other than that, I actually discovered something shocking about myself. I'm just not that into games. And that's really the only other reason I need Windows.
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Old 19-07-2008, 10:17 AM
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I use windows all day @ work, no desire to have it at home also. You've got to have something to look forward to at the end of the day (after the wife, kids, dogs).

Wife still uses office though - can't shake her off....yet.
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Old 19-07-2008, 10:23 AM
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I have 2 intel macs.. unpartitioned not putting windows on my machines ever!!

there is no MS on my computers at all.. no messenger, no office, no windows media player nothing (at least nothing that I know about)

I am 100% redmond free.
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Old 19-07-2008, 10:38 AM
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Perhaps I shouldn't have voted on 'shaking the windows addiction' given that I have never owned anything with windows on it and probably never will.I have owned computers of various types since I got a C64 in 1983 just nothing with MS.Work however requires me to use XP.
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Old 19-07-2008, 10:44 AM
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Never installed Windows on my Intel Macs, have no desire to, and almost certainly never will. I bought a PlayStation to play games that would otherwise need bootcamp.
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Old 19-07-2008, 10:47 AM
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My partner used to have Windows in Fusion for Publisher. The virtual machine went MIA two days ago and now we have completely shaken Windows all together. Now he uses Pages instead of Publisher and as for gaming, we've got an XBOX360, Wii, PSP and the iPhone, so no need to windows anymore.
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Old 19-07-2008, 11:15 AM
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Unfortunatly there isa diffrence between neeeding it becasue I have to and needing it becasue I am still addicted.
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Old 19-07-2008, 11:19 AM
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Hell yes. I have installed Windows on the Al. iMac but there is no need for it as my brother has got a Nano now (we needed SonicStage for his walkman).

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Old 19-07-2008, 11:22 AM
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No windows on my machine haven't found a need to yet with M/S Office for mac covering all my needs, as for gaming much prefer it on the wii and in the last week the ipod touch.
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Old 19-07-2008, 11:37 AM
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I use Parallels for DOS games... but no Windows. Well, that's not entirely true, I have a Parallels XP VM that I could use if I wanted... I just haven't wanted since last year (when the copy of a vital program I needed for uni came for Windows only). I used to have an XP partition, got bored, wiped it for Vista, which lasted two weeks, and I think some time around March this year I removed my Bootcamp partition seeing as I never used it and it was using up 16 GB of precious space.

For games, I have X-Plane and Sauerbraten. I'm not much of a gamer, I spend more time editing music and video like a true Mac user :P
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Old 19-07-2008, 11:46 AM
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I have VMware installed - I never know when I might have to use Windows for some obscure task. The functionality is there, why should I not use it?
Best of both worlds!
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Old 19-07-2008, 11:55 AM
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I need xp on here for work, otherwise I would have killed that partition by now as I need the disc space lol
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Old 19-07-2008, 12:40 PM
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I am Mac at home and Mac at work, its lovely.
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