A few questions from a recently admitted student...

Dad2ILD
Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:54:59 +0000

OK, enough ping-pong … I’ll weigh in. Both sides are “right.” “The Mac” as it comes out of the box with the Mac OS does NOT run native PC applications … period. The Mac definitely CAN run Windows, and thus ALL PC programs as well as the Mac OS, but the owner of the Mac needs to purchase another program such as Parallels or VMWare Fusion in order to “load Windows” … which can either be loaded in a dual boot configuration or configured to be running BOTH Mac OS and Windows at the same time. As I type this, I am working on my 17 inch Mac laptop, which also happens to be running Windows 7 Ultimate at the same time … this browser running from Firefox inside the “Windows” running inside my Mac. Most students will not necessarily know or care to know of this capability, which gives rise to the questions all the time. The Mac will support both.