Re: Staying with XP after April 8 2014 (was Win 7 vs Win 8)

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

> Chances are that some unwanted stuff is moved to your target system. Going
> virtual is much cleaner.


Yes, it's wonderful that a virtual machine reduces your whole
system--everything--to one file. It's a large file, sure, but you can put
it on external drives, migrate it to a new computer, whatever, and proceed
in your comfortable environment. That's the way I operated for 2 years,
running all things Window-based in a VM on the Mac.


That said, it was a tad slower than non-virtual, and every day there will
little settings that got unset and had to be reset (regarding USB-attached
peripherals). So I went back to Windows, with Win7, and use the Mac onlly
for music (Logic Pro and GarageBand).


I'm wondering whether the cool thing to do would be to buy a fast Win 8.1
(ugh) machine and run Win 7 as a virtual machine within it--just to have
the cocoon of a file that is machine-independent.


--Harry


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> Kari Eveli
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> 31.3.2014 17:48, J R FOX wrote:
> > Incidentally, I found a lot of very mixed reviews on the Laplink
> > product, plus mentions of a deceptive one-use-only licensing arrangement
> > and reference to tech support based in India.