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How often do you use Windows on your Mac?

How often do you use Windows on your Mac?

  • Daily

    Votes: 34 27.9%

  • Once every few days

    Votes: 33 27.0%

  • Once every few weeks

    Votes: 19 15.6%

  • Once every few months

    Votes: 12 9.8%

  • Never, but i still have an Intel Mac

    Votes: 11 9.0%

  • I dont own an Intel Mac

    Votes: 13 10.7%
  • Total voters
    122
crazycat

crazycat

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Dec 5, 2005
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How important is running windows on your mac to you and how often do you use it?

I personally need windows and use it daily, i used to have 2 computers in my home office and now i just run a mac.
 
Um... 1 a week tops. I really only use Windows to watch streaming netflix, or to check something real quick... past that, OS X does everything I need.
 
When it first came out i used it quite regularly. But over time i really don't need it that often at all. Now it is only every once in a while but tending towards never. I will keep it though on the off chance that i'll need it.

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Nugget said:
I use Virtual PC on my PowerMac on a daily basis. I run Quicken in XP and I also rely on Internet Explorer to do browser compatibility testing when I'm working on my website.
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Admittedly i only had a single 1.8 GHz G5 nothing like your dual 2.7 beast but i found VPC to be horrid almost utterly useless. How well does it run. Have you tried Fusion or Parallels on your MBP you'll probably get much better perform if you needed it.
 
I use Virtual PC on my PowerMac on a daily basis. I run Quicken in XP and I also rely on Internet Explorer to do browser compatibility testing when I'm working on my website.
 
I have to use Windows anytime I'm at home and need to connect back to my work network. The VPN that we use at work isn't well supported on OS X. That's about it. :)
 
wordmunger said:
Wow, I'm surprised at how many people use it. The secondary (perhaps not-to-be asked) question is how many people *paid* for it.
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The years of trouble i had with it and supporting my family's problem is more than enough payment.
 
The only mac I use windows on is my macbook (so I don;t have to lug a 2nd laptop around with me)

I do however use windows most days at home, mostly to play games.

Actually windows is temporarily installed on my file server also untill I get time to re-install a BSD on it. (to which there is a long dull tale behind) Though since all it does is be a central file store for my various machines to OS really does not matter!
 
I only use Windows to play a game or do my homework where the CD-ROM doesn't work on OS X. So it's once a week when I'm not addicted to a game, several times a day when I am. Other than that I never use it.
 
only reason I have windows is for Visual Studio and Azureus - Shu mod (since it doesnt work on other OS's with the mod)
 
I use Windows very infrequently, and only for Winamp (which runs perfectly under CrossOver Mac) - only once every few weeks or so.
 
Hardly ever...the only reason I need it is to use a guitar tabbing program called Tabit. I'd say once every few weeks...
 
I use Windows once every few days on my Mac, more often than not it's because I want to play BF2. :)

My copy of XP pro and a Microsoft Office is legit because my boss bought it for me so I can use Excel at home. I do have the Mac version of office, but I'm accustomed to all the key stroke shortcuts in the windows version and it's much faster for me to use that.

Other than that I don't use Windows that much. Even keeping my usage limited to BF2 and Excel, I find the upkeep required of running a Windows machine (virus scanners, disk defragmenters, firewall programs & spyware checkers) to be a pain!
 
I don't have an Intel Mac, but use Windows occasionally through Virtual PC on my powerbook. It runs like a 300MHz computer, but useable for the occasional Access database I need to open. It definitely does not do graphics. Good for learning patience though
 
Once every few weeks...some stuff from my uni doesn't work well on mac for some reason...it requires safari under rosetta which is too slow for my likings...I find parallels works better.
 
At least once a week, until the end of race (NASCAR) season. "Raceview" only works in Windows, for now (live, 3D car/track representation).

Additionally, amateur radio logging software, using serial communications with radio over USB.

Both applications through Win2K running on Parallels.

I haven't used it in a while, but I also have XP installed in a Boot Camp partition to run R/C aircraft simulator (RealFlight 3.5). I might run in Parallels, now that it has some 3D support, but RealFlight is very graphics intensive. Runs great on 2.33 MBP booted natively, but I'd probably have to cripple it somewhat to run reasonably in Parallels.
 
I use XP occasionally on my MacBook for some navigation software and seeing how my website looks in IE. And for playing 3D pinball :p
 
I have Windows installed which I have accessible via either Parallels or Boot Camp, however, if something doesn't work on OSX I usually just forget about it instead of bothering with booting Windows.
 
Not used it yet, but i do need it, been looking for a copy of XP to buy but all i can find is the upgrade versions, doing my head in :mad:
 
I've only just realised I haven't got round to installing Parallels & Windows on my mini yet and I've had it for nearly a month.

So that's not very often then :)
 
i use it for my windows version of Maya 8.5 and Z brush 3
im a media arts and animation student so most of my homework must be done with those progs
 
I use Parallels for Win XP at work on my MacBook. I would love to move entirely to OS X but Outlook is critical to my workflow and despite trying access to Exchange through Mail I just couldnt get on with my work in the same way as through Outlook.

I have never bothered to invest time in trying Entourage as Parallels just works and means all the plugins I need ( Enterprise Vault for Email Archive etc ) just work also.

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