Today Apple products use the same internal architecture as other PC's. This presents an interesting idea running Windows on a Apple box. Why you would want to get rid of the Apple OS is beside the point really as sometimes you need all your machines on in a business using the same thing to make your life easier. To this end Apple launched quite silently Boot Camp which is a free utility to allow Windows to operate on a Apple machine. This means you shut down completely and open back up as Windows. This is a major drawback though. Parallels is a better product as it allows you to run Windows in a window and switch between OS X and Windows on a ad-hoc basis. ...  Read the complete review

For many years the argument made by many IT departments against the Apple Mac was that it ran a different operating system and could not be incorporated into their networks. Or, the lame excuse that you couldn't get a particular application for the Mac, like Microsoft Office (even though you could). Well, when Apple changed the processors used in their Macs to Intel, this changed the way that Macs could be used. The most major change that is seeing a rise in Mac sales is the fact that they can now runs Windows XP or Vista. Macs could do this before, but they would have to emulate the Windows platform, so ran very slow. Nowadays all you need to do is either ...  Read the complete review