It’s that time of the year in certain parts of the world that have a end of financial year of 30 June.\u00a0 From May onwards you’ll start to see retailers offering a variety of specials.\u00a0 Fortunately I have managed to synchronize all my hardware purchases and software licenses to expire at the start of the new financial and as a result can par take in annual ritual of updating or changing various pieces of software.\u00a0 Yes tend to buy any new computer hardware at this time of the year!<\/p>\n
I current have two Apple Mac computers a Vista PC and a bits and pieces PC accumulated over the years which I regularly use.\u00a0 The bits and pieces PC is the main PC I use for trialling out new software like freebies and operating systems like Linux basically anything that comes on a magazine’s free DVD or something I found on the internet.<\/p>\n
However if you’ve been keeping up with this section of the BLOG you’ll know that I now run VMWare Fusion on the Apple Mac’s to create virtual PCs running windows – or any other OS that I need.\u00a0 The setup has proven it’s self reliable and flexible.\u00a0 All the software I’ve installed on the virtual PCs work perfectly or specifically as well as they did on a standard box PC.\u00a0 So I’ve finally decided that the Vista PC, bits and pieces machine, the the very old Mac Mini will be decommissioned.\u00a0 That’s a job for Ebay…<\/p>\n
The caveat is that games don’t run very well or not at all on the virtual PCs purely because my particular Macbook I have does not have a dedicated Graphics card.\u00a0 Of course this will be fixed when I get a new Mac with a dedicated graphics card.<\/p>\n
So I’m\u00a0 in the market for a new Apple Mac of decent specification so I can run multiple virtual Windows PCs when required. I figure that a 5 year life span and using free and paid software including anti-virus software I can actually save money?\u00a0 Apple does not offer real discounts on their computers but retailers often have packages but often not compelling enough – nonetheless I shall see.<\/p>\n
I’m a supporter of free software – afterall I make free stuff as well but I also support paying for legitimate software.\u00a0 Basically if you don’t pay for it the companies go broke and you won’t get new stuff.\u00a0 So I buy software if its better than free offerings.\u00a0 I always install the trail version first to make sure it will work so should you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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