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Salty · Sep 21, 2006, 03:18 PM

Well my MacBook should be here hopefully by Monday... if it gets here tomorrow that'd be great. But anyway, I'm just wondering for all of you. How pure have you kept your Mac? Now normally I'd say mine would be 100% free of Windows... but I'm debating putting an install on my external drive simply so that I can play Battle for Middle Earth 2. There really isn't any software other than that that I'd like to run. And I just want to be able to try and beat the other guys in dorm. That said I've seen a few intel Mac users on campus with Windows full screen and it makes me shudder... so I don't know if I can pull it off... I think I might leave my new baby untainted.

Oisín · Sep 21, 2006, 03:31 PM

How pure?

Well, I haven’t tried having sex with it, so I guess quite pure...

itai195 · 03:43 PM

I like to keep mine approximately 92.38581% pure but it takes a lot of energy to maintain that level. Sometimes the pumps have to run 24 hours straight.

paul w · Sep 21, 2006, 03:37 PM

Pure? I have XP because I need IE for web site testing. Anybody wants to call it impure they can get bent.

turtle777 · Sep 21, 2006, 03:39 PM

Man, this thread is headed for derailment, I can tell you that right now.

-t

xi_hyperon · Sep 21, 2006, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by paul w

Pure? I have XP because I need IE for web site testing. Anybody wants to call it impure they can get bent.

Me too, for precisely the same reasons. Anyone who wants to call that impure - please refer to paul's answer.

icruise · Sep 21, 2006, 03:46 PM

Pure? Don't be stupid. If you have a use for Windows, put it on there. If not, don't.

turtle777 · Sep 21, 2006, 03:48 PM

This thread was born to die.

IBL.

-t

invisibleX · Sep 21, 2006, 03:49 PM

I was almost 100% sure this thread was going to be about pornography.

On topic: its a tool. If you can make it do more things, have more capability, without significantly weighing it down why not?

Helmling · Sep 21, 2006, 03:49 PM

Oh, lighten up you guys. Me thinks thou dost protest too much.

Me, I hope to have mine revirginated with the release of iWork '07 and go 100% Microsoft free. As of now, I have no windows--choosing crossover instead--and just MS Office.

Dakar · Sep 21, 2006, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Man, this thread is headed for derailment, I can tell you that right now.

-t

Yeah, but the fun part is trying to figure out how homosexuality will come up from having Windows on your Mac.

turtle777 · Sep 21, 2006, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar

Yeah, but the fun part is trying to figure out how homosexuality will come up from having Windows on your Mac.

Nah, the reference will be to Salty, gayness and purity. It's a no brainer.

-t

olePigeon · Sep 21, 2006, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by paul w

Pure? I have XP because I need IE for web site testing. Anybody wants to call it impure they can get bent.

You can be more pure by running XP in a sandbox with Parallels or VMWare.

Don't think I'd go as far as actually installing it on my Mac. That's just... well, wrong. I think it's in the Bible someplace.

Oneota · Sep 21, 2006, 03:55 PM

but I'm debating putting an install on my external drive simply so that I can play Battle for Middle Earth 2

FYI: You can't put Windows on an external drive via BootCamp. Windows can only boot from internal drives/partitions (due, I think, to a limitation of Windows).

Oisín · Sep 21, 2006, 03:57 PM

Oh, lighten up you guys. Me thinks thou dost protest too much.

Which one of us?

Yeah, but the fun part is trying to figure out how homosexuality will come up from having Windows on your Mac.

“Having Windows on your Mac is sooo ghey!”

Or what the transmogrified turtle said.

Eug · Sep 21, 2006, 04:25 PM

Sometimes it's good to take a ride on the wild side.

Variety is the spice of life, as they say...

turtle777 · Sep 21, 2006, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

“Having Windows on your Mac is sooo ghey!”

Yes, but this thread taught me that you can be teh ghey w/o having windows on your Mac. Ain't that something.

-t

paul w · Sep 21, 2006, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Eug

Sometimes it's good to take a ride on the wild side.

Variety is the spice of life, as they say...

Which kind of purity are we talking about again?

Salty · Sep 21, 2006, 06:15 PM

Wait so I'd have to put it on the main drive? Do you think I could play BFME inside of Parallels? Would that bog my system a bit too much? I might be willing to run it in a sand box. Either way I'm not sure... I don't really want to partition my 80 gig HD. I'll probably end up using a good chunk of it right away.

TheoCryst · Sep 21, 2006, 06:42 PM

I wouldn't count on running BFME in Parallels. It's speedy, but not THAT speedy. Your only real option for gaming is installing Windows on your main HDD. Hopefully, future versions of Boot Camp will allow booting off external drives, but not for now. This is actually the main reason I'm upgrading to a 120-gig HDD (60 just wasn't enough for all my crap AND a pair of large OSs).

That being said, my MacBook is currently 100% Microsoft-free, though it'll be changing once I install Vista RC1. And who knows, maybe Office 2007 will woo me back over (though it'll be tough to do if iWork '07 includes a spreadsheet app).

Salty · Sep 21, 2006, 06:49 PM

I'm actually kinda glad that I bought iWork 06 now, even though the features weren't that great, at least I have a universal version of Pages

.

I'm really looking forward to 07 though and I think it'll be enough to hold me. I've always hated MS office. I think considering the size of my HD I won't bother with XP.

The Godfather · Sep 21, 2006, 06:50 PM

I boots Windows on my Mac from time to time and I likes it.

I need some compilers and electronic design software. Parallels is out of my budget.

mitchell_pgh · Sep 21, 2006, 06:52 PM

I have an iBook, Quicksilver G4 and cube... all in their unopened packaging in a temperature controlled rental space. I dust them off weekly.

cybergoober · Sep 21, 2006, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by Oneota

FYI: You can't put Windows on an external drive via BootCamp. Windows can only boot from internal drives/partitions (due, I think, to a limitation of Windows).

I thought one of the recent Boot Camp updates enabled installing Windows on an external drive. Perhaps I'm mistaken...

edit: And I was

Heavy Fluid · Sep 21, 2006, 08:03 PM

I had WMP on mine, but I hated it, so I deleted it. Nothing else Windows based. So I guess it's pure.

rickey939 · Sep 21, 2006, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by mitchell_pgh

I have an iBook, Quicksilver G4 and cube... all in their unopened packaging in a temperature controlled rental space. I dust them off weekly.

Trumped...

Ron Goodman · Sep 21, 2006, 08:23 PM

No Microsoft software on mine, period.

TheoCryst · Sep 21, 2006, 09:49 PM

And as a random side note, I love how "pure" means Microsoft-free, and not Apple-only. After all, wouldn't a "pure" Apple machine ONLY have Apple-branded software? That means no OSS, no Photoshop, no Eclipse, no games...

Then again, I also strongly dislike Microsoft and most (though not all) of their products, so I'm kinda okay with bizzare connotation.

Salty · Sep 21, 2006, 11:09 PM

The thing is Adobe isn't the same as Microsoft. Macs are supposed to have third party software. Pure doesn't mean Apple only, it just means non tainted.

KeriVit · Sep 22, 2006, 12:35 AM

Play both. It's not figgin evil to wanna run things that aren't made for Mac, it's necessity.