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19-07-2008, 09:22 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: /dev/null
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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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19-07-2008, 09:53 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brains
...or do you still pay reluctant homage to MS for the odd game or mission critical Windows-only app?
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Mission critical work apps like Primavera P3, SureTrak, MS Project on XP via Parallels here.
Office Mac 2008 Entourage for work email instead of Outlook goes fine for me. Office Mac 2004 for Excel VBA though- may need to use Windows version if Excel 2004 compatibility with new OSX versions becomes an issue before VBA returns in 2010-2011  .
At home, all other systems Mac, apart from an HP desktop running Ubuntu as a Samba File Server  .
Games ??? Do they make games for computers ??? Wow, I must take a look at that sometime. 
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19-07-2008, 10:11 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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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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19-07-2008, 10:17 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Perth
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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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19-07-2008, 10:23 AM
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Ronin
Group: Regulars
Location: Sapporo
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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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19-07-2008, 10:38 AM
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Member
Group: Regulars
Location: Perth & Tallering Peak
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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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19-07-2008, 10:44 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Canberra, Australia
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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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19-07-2008, 10:47 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: where it's damn hot in summer and freezing in winter.
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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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19-07-2008, 11:15 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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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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iBook 14'' 1GB Ram, MBP(santa) 15" 4GB ram, iPod Nano(3G) 4gb, iPod shuffle 512mb, iPod Touch 8gb.
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19-07-2008, 11:19 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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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).
I take pride in saying I haven't got Office at home 
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19-07-2008, 11:22 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Paraburdoo
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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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Macbook White 2.4 Penryn
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19-07-2008, 11:37 AM
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Resident Pirate
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney Metropolitan
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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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Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4, Still can't quicklook volume icons of greater than 128*128 when icon was pasted from picture.
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19-07-2008, 11:46 AM
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Beware the Robot Mafia
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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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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19-07-2008, 11:55 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
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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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19-07-2008, 12:40 PM
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Member
Group: Member
Location: Melbourne
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I am Mac at home and Mac at work, its lovely. 
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