will_doyle
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My mate has a new Mac Book and wants a few Adobe programes like PS etc.
But he doesnt want to buy them 
Is there something called dual boot so you can run 2 operating softwares on it? Then I can just give him my copied PS
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John
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Screenshot sent to apple, microsoft and adobe.
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will_doyle
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Originally posted by John
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johnhara1
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He could use bootcamp and install Windows XP on a 2nd Partition.
or
He could install Parallels which is Virtual PC for MAC. This will allow him to install XP as a VM.
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johnhara1
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Originally posted by John
Screenshot sent to apple, microsoft and adobe.
You can talk....
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Cosmo
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Why not just get illegal copies for the mac?
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John
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quote:
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Originally posted by John
Screenshot sent to apple, microsoft and adobe.
You can talk....
I purchase all my software 
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johnhara1
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Originally posted by Cosmo
Why not just get illegal copies for the mac?
Windows copies are more available via Torrents but yeah, that's what i'd do too.
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by Cosmo
Why not just get illegal copies for the mac?
Windows copies are more available via Torrents but yeah, that's what i'd do too.
Mac copies are just as available if you are even slightly competent with a torrent search.
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johnhara1
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just did a quick search there. That's true TBH.
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Cosmo
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I wouldnt know, it was just a guess - I have never ever searched or downloaded numerous torrents for Mac programmes in the last 4 or 5 years.
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johnhara1
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Originally posted by Cosmo
I wouldnt know, it was just a guess - I have never ever searched or downloaded numerous torrents for Mac programmes in the last 4 or 5 years.
So was my post about Windows Software being more popular on torrents than the MACs. Simply assumed with the MAC\Windows ratio there will be more copies for windows.
Technically i am right as there are more Windows copies available but like you said, MAC copies are just as easy to get from the torrent sites.
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Sam
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If your mate can afford to buy a new MacBook then surely he can afford to buy the software to use on it?
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johnhara1
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Originally posted by Sam
If your mate can afford to buy a new MacBook then surely he can afford to buy the software to use on it?
Where did he say he couldn't afford it?
He doesn't want to buy it.
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Dom
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plenty of dodgy software out there for mac and freely available on torrents, rapidshare, newsgroups etc. Seems a bit pointless just to dual boot for that.....
[Edited on 11-12-2009 by Dom]
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
plenty of dodgy software out there for mac and freely available on torrents, rapidshare, newsgroups etc. Seems a bit pointless just to dual boot for that.....
[Edited on 11-12-2009 by Dom]
TBH if this guy is asking Doyle for advice then he cant be the sharpest pencil in the box.
Im amazed Doyle hasnt taken this as a business opportunity and set up making pirated copies of Mac software.
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AlunJ
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just acquire new copies from the local torrent store as you would anything else tbh, dual booting with xp is a waste of time in my opinion, I did it and never actually used it.
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Andrew
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VMWare or Virtual PC, there's also the option on the intel chipsets to run BootCamp.
BootCamp does run brilliantly though.
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