John,
Been using Mac here as laptop solution for 5 years now using Fusion FX (Basically VMWare Workstation) and never had any problems. The Fusion runs much quicker on the Macbook Pro (3 years old I7 with 16Gb) than native on my other laptop (Dell) and security/rollback is a cinch as I have automatic snapshots in Fusion for exactly the reason(s) you stated. I would never go back to a native windows laptop again apart from the SurfacePro which I find excellent for graphical work which Fusion FX isn't particularly strong on due to video card emulation which is not top end graphics.
As for MacOSX it is simple and very intuitive and now I miss many of the touchpad swipe options available on the Mac when I occasionally move back to the Windows laptop. - hence buying a Logitech T650 touchpad which is almost as good as but not quite there!
If you want to dabble in Linux/Unix/Xenix then the Mac is a really stable tool to learn on even though you really don't have to be proficient in command line antics if you don't want.
In my experience, the only thing missing on the Macbook is a touch screen or stylus which will hopefully be remedied by the time I come to upgrade.
Dave
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Never having been taught Unix I find Linux confusing. There are so many distros, all different and all changing faster than the books can keep up with them whereas the Mac is stable, well relatively.
John
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Subject: Re: VFP in Windows on a Mac
Post by j***@johnweller.co.ukI have had a nightmare installing the latest Win 10 update. The only
thing stopping me from throwing the PC out of the window and going out
and buying a Mac was the fact that I have a number of apps still in
use written in VFP which I need to maintain. I was told recently that
I could run Windows on a Mac - has anyone any experience of running VFP
under Windows on a Mac?
Why Mac? I use Linux and WinXP in VirtualBox without any troubles for years.
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