Re: question about networking when running windows on macbook
- From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:58:07 -0500
In article <1ih122c.1ajnk4tdma1kpN%d4g4h4@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
d4g4h4@xxxxxxxxxxx (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
Hope this question is appropriate for here. My employer will be buying
me a laptop as part of a new job I have with them. They only support PCs
for networking, but I only use Macs in my work (music.) I'd like them to
get me a macbook, and I'd run windows on it in addition to OS X. I'd
simply use the wifi under OS X when travelling away from work. Could I
expect them to allow the windows partition to be networked (via
ethernet) without a problem?
Can you clarify exactly what you mean by "they only support PCs for
networking"?
Mac OS X connects to TCP/IP networks just fine, and you can access
Windows network services with Mac OS X as well. Windows, when running on
Macs, connects to TCP/IP networks as well - TCP/IP is TCP/IP.
As far as running Windows on your Mac goes, unless you need to do 3D
graphics acceleration, you will probably want to run Windows virtualized
(inside of vmWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop) so that you can access
Windows without having to reboot your Mac - as opposed to dual booting
with Boot Camp, which will require you to create physical partitions on
your hard drive and reboot each time you want to switch operating
systems. Regardless of how you run Windows (virtualized, or dual boot),
networking is very similar. In fact, you have *more* networking options
when you run Windows virtualized. There are actually many benefits to
running virtualized as opposed to dual booting. So my general advice
would be to purchase vmWare Fusion and run Windows inside of it.
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