04-14-2007, 09:25 PM
Suggestion: Buy your wife a Mac.
Download Boot Camp, install Windows on it. Let her run whatever she wants.
When it gets a virus or "slows down" due to spyware (guess what -- this could take all of a DAY!), offer to see if there's some alternative to her needs in the Mac world.
If the reason she "needs" a PC is to run Office, smack her (and yourself) and buy Mac Office.
If the reason she "needs" a PC is because she needs ActiveX on IE7 to do MLS listings, buy Crossover (it works fine).
Anything else? Buy Parallels, take the Win environment offline, let her do her one or two apps, and use the Mac for everything else.
She WILL thank you later.
Download Boot Camp, install Windows on it. Let her run whatever she wants.
When it gets a virus or "slows down" due to spyware (guess what -- this could take all of a DAY!), offer to see if there's some alternative to her needs in the Mac world.
If the reason she "needs" a PC is to run Office, smack her (and yourself) and buy Mac Office.
If the reason she "needs" a PC is because she needs ActiveX on IE7 to do MLS listings, buy Crossover (it works fine).
Anything else? Buy Parallels, take the Win environment offline, let her do her one or two apps, and use the Mac for everything else.
She WILL thank you later.