Boot camp with Cisco VPN client and smart card

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Boot camp with Cisco VPN client and smart card

Looking at a Macbook or Macbook Air and the only reason I need to run windows is to be able to access my work network through the Cisco VPN client and my Smartcard then use remote desktop. From my understanding if I run Bootcamp it should work am I correct? Im going to an Apple store tomorrow hopefully they can help too.
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Posted on Dec 27, 2010 8:25 AM

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Dec 27, 2010 8:43 AM in response to mrbacklash

We don't know how your VPN is set up so it will be difficult to say whether it will work or not. Contact your VPN administrator at work.

That said, I use a CISCO and other VPN connections every day from my Macbook Pro, both from within OSx and from Windows, without issue.

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Dec 27, 2010 8:54 AM in response to BobTheFisherman

Ok with that being said will the MBA 11.6 1.4ghz have the guts to make it run mostly internet based programs over the VPN connection?

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Dec 27, 2010 10:57 AM in response to mrbacklash

mrbacklash wrote:
Ok with that being said will the MBA 11.6 1.4ghz have the guts to make it run mostly internet based programs over the VPN connection?

I think if you are running apps over the Internet the bottleneck will be the Internet and your VPN bandwidth. Your computer can certainly execute faster than Internet communications.

Besides, Internet or remote applications run on the remote server. All your local computer does is local processing of the data if necessary.

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