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Hi,
[apologies if this is not the correct forum to post this in. Feel free to point to wherever it should be posted. This is my first post on THW.Com}
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Hi,
I am a long time freelancer and have been working with computers for years...decades actually. I am not some super-duper geek type, but can hold my own. Here is my not-so-horrible dilemma.
Essentially I work in a Win world because my clients are primarily Win based. So I need to simulate their environments. However, I am getting more Mac/Apple clients as of late and, of course, with that come some issues. What I want to be able to do is replicate the Mac users’ environment as a test bed. I love Mac/Apple, but the reality is that the Win world simply works better for the stuff I do.
I am not trying to make Apple work on Win btw. What I am seeking is advice as to a representative Mac system that I can run tests on. I do not need the latest and the greatest Mac, but I do need something that will give me an idea if the files I create are Mac compatible. I was working with an older MacBook recently and it got me thinking that something like this would be perfect. It does the font routine, it is reasonably fast and overall has good response. So the though was that maybe this is all I need to run the tests that I need.
As far as files go- I create PDF forms, spreadsheets, clean data and other fairly innocuous documents. So the key is not so much software based, but file type based.
I do not want to spend a crap-load of money and given this is really a testing exercise, I don’t think I need state-of-the-art, launch the space shuttle hardware. Just something that I can run tests with. I seriously doubt I would be doing any file creation with the Mac. Instead, I would be porting the files over to see how they play on the Mac as a user might encounter.
Ok…I know this is rather rambling……butgiven all that, does anyone have thoughts as to this issue?
Thanks!
Joe Rowan
[apologies if this is not the correct forum to post this in. Feel free to point to wherever it should be posted. This is my first post on THW.Com}
********************
Hi,
I am a long time freelancer and have been working with computers for years...decades actually. I am not some super-duper geek type, but can hold my own. Here is my not-so-horrible dilemma.
Essentially I work in a Win world because my clients are primarily Win based. So I need to simulate their environments. However, I am getting more Mac/Apple clients as of late and, of course, with that come some issues. What I want to be able to do is replicate the Mac users’ environment as a test bed. I love Mac/Apple, but the reality is that the Win world simply works better for the stuff I do.
I am not trying to make Apple work on Win btw. What I am seeking is advice as to a representative Mac system that I can run tests on. I do not need the latest and the greatest Mac, but I do need something that will give me an idea if the files I create are Mac compatible. I was working with an older MacBook recently and it got me thinking that something like this would be perfect. It does the font routine, it is reasonably fast and overall has good response. So the though was that maybe this is all I need to run the tests that I need.
As far as files go- I create PDF forms, spreadsheets, clean data and other fairly innocuous documents. So the key is not so much software based, but file type based.
I do not want to spend a crap-load of money and given this is really a testing exercise, I don’t think I need state-of-the-art, launch the space shuttle hardware. Just something that I can run tests with. I seriously doubt I would be doing any file creation with the Mac. Instead, I would be porting the files over to see how they play on the Mac as a user might encounter.
Ok…I know this is rather rambling……butgiven all that, does anyone have thoughts as to this issue?
Thanks!
Joe Rowan
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