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So our team recently did this under the request of our adviser...

 

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It's working well so far...

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It's pretty common.

 

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'kay

 

I'm pretty sure this is common.

 

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Eh, my parent's Macbook Pro is running Windows 7. 

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Call me ignorant, but I taught Apple allowed you to install Windows on your Macs for years now. 

 

EDIT: Yeah, wasn't sure if I remembered correctly so I checked. It's called Boot Camp. It was released in 2006 and I remember being all like "Good for you Apple, I tip my hat"

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It is a preferable set-up. The macbook air is awesome hardware in such a small form factor and mac os isn't as convenient or compatible as windows so....

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Is it worth it?

 

According to our adviser, yes...

 

Her old MacBook broke a few moths back and when she got the quote for repairs, the cost is just a few thousand PhPs (1USD = ~45PhP) short of that device up there...

Win8 was provided by the university, so she didn't have to spend a single cent on that...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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According to our adviser, yes...

 

Her old MacBook broke a few moths back and when she got the quote for repairs, the cost is just a few thousand PhPs (1USD = ~45PhP) short of that device up there...

Win8 was provided by the university, so she didn't have to spend a single cent on that...

Oh. Still don't see why you'd get an Apple product to put windows on it, but oh well.

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There's this thing called Boot Camp.

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What's the issue here? 

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Oh. Still don't see why you'd get an Apple product to put windows on it, but oh well.

If OP can confirm, the laptop likely still has OSX on it, so it can be used that way if needed when not using anything on Windows 8.

The person may have needed Windows 8 for a set of applications that run better on W8 than OSX?

Then there's the whole: it's their laptop, they can do whatever they want with it. Many people would question why you would spend hundreds of dollars on gaming hardware, but you don't care because that's what you want.

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Oh, so you took an apple product and made it actually useful, good on you.

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Oh, so you took an apple product and made it actually useful, good on you.

Myself including a lot of other people would consider this less useful, but seeing as you're a gamer that doesn't really care about Unix...

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Myself including a lot of other people would consider this less useful, but seeing as you're a gamer that doesn't really care about Unix...

I care more about compatibility with most of the rest of the world. There's a reason most businesses use windows instead of IOS.

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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If OP can confirm, the laptop likely still has OSX on it, so it can be used that way if needed when not using anything on Windows 8.

The person may have needed Windows 8 for a set of applications that run better on W8 than OSX?

Then there's the whole: it's their laptop, they can do whatever they want with it. Many people would question why you would spend hundreds of dollars on gaming hardware, but you don't care because that's what you want.

Time to spill the beans...

 

It's running on Virtualbox... Amazingly smoothly at that...

 

Myself including a lot of other people would consider this less useful, but seeing as you're a gamer that doesn't really care about Unix...

Our adviser needed both Unix and some development software on Windows...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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I care more about compatibility with most of the rest of the world. There's a reason most businesses use windows instead of IOS.

Well in that case you'll be pleased to note that OS X includes several dozen languages preinstalled so you can run any script you find online.

 

Wait, that's not what you meant, is it? Most businesses don't use OS X because their software doesn't run on it. A lot of startups do, though. I believe Google uses mostly Macs because their workers choose their computers, and especially in the Valley almost no startup runs Windows. It's much more expensive for them and it's also not fashionable right now too.

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sudo rm -rf /

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Our adviser needed both Unix and some development software on Windows...

Right, which is why this is a great setup. I run that too for working in LabVIEW.

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If OP can confirm, the laptop likely still has OSX on it, so it can be used that way if needed when not using anything on Windows 8.

The person may have needed Windows 8 for a set of applications that run better on W8 than OSX?

Then there's the whole: it's their laptop, they can do whatever they want with it. Many people would question why you would spend hundreds of dollars on gaming hardware, but you don't care because that's what you want.

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I now bring you this new act of blasphemy (and a necro)...

 

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I kinda miss @Builder now...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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