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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Or if you know your laptop still works and you think it is only the software that’s toast. Consider installing Ubuntu.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Carol Gardner [mailto:gems@spiritone.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 16, 2011 1:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> Pasha Korber-Gonzalez<br><b>Cc:</b> eQUEST Users List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] New computer?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Guess what? you can have everything you want.<br><br>I got a MacBook Pro in 2008. That was during Windows Vista days and I just didn't want to get involved with it. What I was originally looking for was a PC that could run a dual environment: one Vista, one XP. I spent hours, at Best Buy, while they tried to find the PC that could do it. They were still looking when a sales associate came up and whispered "go to a Mac store. They've been doing this for years.<br><br>It's true that they can do this. You will need two things: your boxed version of the Windows operating system, so they know that you bought it and a thick spin when the Mac guy says: sure I can install a dual environment, they call it Boot Camp btw, with a slight sneer. At this point you have already bought the Mac but I would recommend not even leaving the store with it. Come prepared with your discs.<br><br>It will cost you more, by which I mean the Mac and the PC, there might be a small charge for installing Boot Camp, I don't remember. I had my partition set at 75% Windows/25% Mac. That has worked well so far. I am entering my 3rd year of this arrangement and the only failure I have had has been on the PC side, when my Sound Card mysteriously disappeared. <br><br>Good luck!<br>Carol<br><br>On 11/16/2011 7:35 AM, Pasha Korber-Gonzalez wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi --I want to ask if any of you have been running eQuest on a MacBook? My back-up laptop, Dell Vostro, lost its motherboard 2 nights ago right in the middle of a Baseline model....Ugh. It was only 2.5 yrs old. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>With that crash---I'm fed up with Dells and am looking for a better laptop with enough reliability to handle eQuest.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Are there any drawbacks or advantages that I should be aware of before purchasing a MacBook? It's nervy to switch to a Mac, being a PC so long, but after 5 Dell computers---and poor computer quality, I'm wavering from the whole PC thing anyway....<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Would appreciate advice, notes or recommendations on a new, good laptop that will run eQuest with little issues...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Pasha<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Equest-users mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to <a href="mailto:EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG">EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>