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>>>>I do the same thing using ghost on my pc and I don't have the slow response of a virtual machine...
>>>what slow response?
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>>Your VM is no where near as fast as my desktop....
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>if you wish so, the mac comes witha dual boot capability just install win 7 and boot into it. but then you don't have the mac environment available :-(
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>Peter

Of course to solve that, couldn't you just run MacOS in a VM under Windows? ;-)