Introduction: Sleeping with the Enemy

I confess. I’ve slept with the enemy for a long time. Although my heart and passion has always been with Macs, my wallet has dictated collaboration with the enemy. For a long time, I’ve had and used Windows PCs in order to earn income because I couldn’t run all the software I needed to on my Mac. So, I had a not-so-beloved (AKA a necessary evil) Windows PC on my desk right next to my beloved Mac. I lived in both worlds.

With the rise of the Intel Macs, sleeping with the enemy isn’t as difficult as it once was. Instead of purchasing and maintaining Windows hardware, you can now run Windows on a Mac. The even better news is that Windows performs on a Mac as well as or better than it does on Windows hardware, ...

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