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jlb1484 · 03-19-2008, 08:25 PM

Well first whats the difference besides buying another PC or a Windows incense? Buying another PC box will cost more!

No hoops to jump through, not sure what you mean by that.

1st Hoop Its pointing to a Dell server so no need for a connection to the T-Max Manager Pro.
2nd Hoop Parallels in Coherence mode
3rd Hoop You will still need a PC as the server unless you want to invest in an USB adapter for the T-Max or buy a new USB T-Max

Macs are cheaper than a the same equipped PC box and they use the latest hardware, not some two year old crap.

That can be argued all day

So why go down the road? Reliability. Running windows as a virtual machine is fast and safe. Helios will just be another program on the Macs like any other. But if the virtual machine flips out, as Windows OFTEN does, all I have to do is dump the image file and copy a new one over in less than a minute. One minute of down time if something goes wrong. You can NOT say that about a PC. Heck, no need to even re-boot!

I will never have to deal with the headaches of Windows again.

But your running windows on your mac. In a virtual machine no less. Take windows out of the mix and all you have is a mac.

I'm not trying to knock you or what your doing I say to each their own. But until someone writes a tanning POS software for OSX your still stuck with windows. You can put lipstick on a pig but in the end you still have a pig.

I spend all day working on PC's and Mac's and your setup is cool and all but I just can't see it being a realistic solution.

03-19-2008, 08:25 PM	#23 (permalink)
jlb1484 Join Date: Feb 23 2005 Location: Hole in the wall Age: 33 Posts: 430 Rep Power: 4	Re: Any Mac users out there? Well first whats the difference besides buying another PC or a Windows incense? Buying another PC box will cost more! No hoops to jump through, not sure what you mean by that. 1st Hoop Its pointing to a Dell server so no need for a connection to the T-Max Manager Pro. 2nd Hoop Parallels in Coherence mode 3rd Hoop You will still need a PC as the server unless you want to invest in an USB adapter for the T-Max or buy a new USB T-Max Macs are cheaper than a the same equipped PC box and they use the latest hardware, not some two year old crap. That can be argued all day So why go down the road? Reliability. Running windows as a virtual machine is fast and safe. Helios will just be another program on the Macs like any other. But if the virtual machine flips out, as Windows OFTEN does, all I have to do is dump the image file and copy a new one over in less than a minute. One minute of down time if something goes wrong. You can NOT say that about a PC. Heck, no need to even re-boot! I will never have to deal with the headaches of Windows again. But your running windows on your mac. In a virtual machine no less. Take windows out of the mix and all you have is a mac. I'm not trying to knock you or what your doing I say to each their own. But until someone writes a tanning POS software for OSX your still stuck with windows. You can put lipstick on a pig but in the end you still have a pig. I spend all day working on PC's and Mac's and your setup is cool and all but I just can't see it being a realistic solution.