moira123 wrote:
I just bought my first mac. Mac people always talk about how the mac is great for graphics but all my programs for video, audio and photo editing are for a pc.
Seems to me loading a windows os just defeats the purpose of getting a mac but i spent alot of money on all these programs. I was running xp, and microsoft and sony will not give me a clean copy of the disk. On top of that I just heard that lion will not take xp and that I need to buy windows 7. Is this true?
I dont even know if all my programs will work with 7. I am also worried about how these programs will look on the smaller screen and do I have enough processor speed.
Someone please tell me why I need to keep this mac....
If all of your programs are PC-friendly then didn't you just get another PC? Did you not realize that native PC applications could not be run in OS X without some form of virtualization or using Boot Camp? That being said, you didn't tell us what the programs were, so it's difficult to advise on the machine's capabilities without knowing the requirements of the products in question.
As Fortuny stated, the newer OS requires Windows 7. Which honestly, considering the last new build of the OS was in April of 2008 (over 3 years ago) it's not terribly unreasonable to expect that a company like Apple would no longer continue to cater their products to support it.
Truthfully, and I recommend this pretty frequently, sometimes a Mac (and OS X) just isn't for you. Especially for people that require a robust Windows environment. Yes, Boot Camp will work and it works great. But if you don't have all the necessary pieces in place to make your new Mac as PC friendly as a new PC would be, then sometimes you just have to delay the purchase or avoid it altogether.
