Apple or Windows Software? on a mac

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I'm a lucky boy in that my wife bought me an Apple Macbook Pro as a surprise Christmas present. However I am very much used to windows due to work and also have a lot of windows software. eg have Quark for windows but couldn't afford to purchase Mac version again.

Just wondering whether to install bootcamp and xp or w7 and then my exisitng software or start saving for Mac versions of PShop, Office etc.

For web browsing will certainly use Lion and Safari.

Any thoughts based on your experiences of windows on a mac appreciated or is it just unthinkable? :bonk:

Thanks

pete:thinking:
 
Windows software works well on the Mac, but check if you can transfer licenses. Photoshop you can, Lightroom is the same license etc.
 
There is also virtual machine software around like parallels that lets you run windows software within the mac environment. Saves having to do the dual boot thing as you'd always be in the wrong one.

I used to use crossover office. It's probably got a fancy name now.

Office you can use openoffice (free), gimp is pretty good at photoshop style stuff (free again)

There is free dtp software called scribus. It's no quark but it might be ok for a few things. http://forums.quark.com/p/25126/101268.aspx this suggests you can run it on 2 computers at the same time anyway so you could install the mac quark...but only if you have quark 8 as 7 crashes due to firewire changes.
 
I've spent a day and a half installing Windows XP on an elderly MacBook via Bootcamp (after all other efforts failed). It now works OK but it works far better as Apple intended.

If you really need to run PC software then IMO VMWare is the best option.

Most people who move to Mac and think they will use PC software end up only running Mac s/w. Lots of people are very happy with Pages etc instead of M$Office (though I run M$Office for Mac and it's jolly good - possibly the best product to come out of Redmond).
 
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