Fwd: Re: Win 8 v. Win 7

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

A second copy. Thunderbird seems to malfuction. Sorry.
*********************************************************************
From what you tell, you could easily skip a Windows PC altogether. My
advice: buy a new Mac, and a W2K (or XP) CD from Ebay and install it
into Parallels or VirtualBox. W2K iso files can be downloaded from many
places, but you can get a legal copy for $15 from Ebay. W2K needs no
activation, so it is well suited for virtualization use. You can try it
on different virtualization platforms and have multiple instances
tailored to different needs without activation hassles.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

*** Lexitec Online ***
Lexitec in English: http://www.lexitec.fi/english.html
Home page in Finnish: http://www.lexitec.fi/

 9.2.2014 22:38, Lisa Kleinholz wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the
great advice. I am seriously considering > spending around $600 on
Lenovo with Win 7 Pro (64 bit) and XP Mode > already installed
(available through their web site). But the > temptation of using this
as an excuse to buy the Macbook Air (about > double the price) I've been
hankering after is strong. I've switched > to Mac for just about
everything else. What's stopping me, in addition > to cost, is the issue
of loading XP onto Parallels, as I don't have > an XP disk.