Understood. My point is that Mac systems are way better than Win ( IMO ) but that the ubiquitous nature of MS stuff would make it nice to run Mac OS for most operations but be able to switch to MS when needed.

>I'm saying that when you buy a new MAC you are buying intel hardware (that's how they have upgraded speed) and UNIX OS (that's what OS X is).
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>>Hey Bill,
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>>Yes, it would be most advantageous to use the Mac with Mac software as much as possible and just run the "necessary" MS stuff under XP on the machine. But price is prohibitive here, at least for me. :-)
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>>>Yep. You'd be using Intel processors and Unix to run Windows on a box that has a Mac label (and price).
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>>>>>Bill,
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>>>>>We can always have hope. I love the new Mac ad though "this fixes all the problems of [insert the previous release here]"
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>>>>>>That's too bad. It would be good to have a definitive answer on this. I just didn't have the time/incentive to chase it further. But on the other hand, you weren't actually expecting MS "functionality" to work, were you? :-)