Re: OT - just curious - who uses Mac and should I switch from PC?

I believe, I think, I understand everything so far. Now, what if I
keep my pc laptop but disable all of it's wireless capability so it
won't ever connect to the internet, but keep my windows applications
on it for non internet use...can I connect a mac laptop to a pc laptop
to transfer information, like, via usb, that I have downloaded or
received in email? So that my pc laptop would be like a large
external drive that's actually running windows, or something like
that. Or am I making a simple situation complex from a lack of
understanding?

That should work, except that newer versions of Windows need to be
registered over the net, don't they? (With XP it was pretty common
for people to get virus infections in the first few *seconds* they
were online, before they'd had a chance to finish setting their
machines up).

If you use the Windows machine wirelessly, it can still connect to
your Mac and your Mac can prevent it from sharing its own internet
connection. It's very easy to set that up.

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