Bought a Mac Book Pro

Posted by eve2206 PM | on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 17:53 1749 30 comments | report

I finally made my laptop decision and went for the MacBook Pro. I now need to sort out the Windows side of it.

Do I just buy Windows 8 (and update to the Pro version for £25 before end Jan), or do I need to buy a special version of Windows for the Mac? I need to be able to use my MS Office software including Visio, Project etc and also VT+, Moneysoft, TaxCalc, Sage, Quickbooks and so on.

I don't want to mess it up so wondered if anyone could just steer me in the right direction. I was hoping to make use of the Microsoft discounts for students when buying this software, but want the pro versions.

thanks for any help/advice.

Eve

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Bootcamp

Stewie Griffin | Fri, 11/01/2013 - 18:52

Thanks Stewie - I've seen Mac

eve2206 | Fri, 11/01/2013 - 19:12

old post on this...

eve2206 | Fri, 11/01/2013 - 22:08

Office for Mac

The VAT Doctor | Fri, 11/01/2013 - 22:59

VirtualBox

johndon68 | Sat, 12/01/2013 - 08:58

Office for Mac

paulwakefield1 | Sat, 12/01/2013 - 09:45

Restrictions

The VAT Doctor | Sat, 12/01/2013 - 10:24

Well it doesn't support

paulwakefield1 | Sat, 12/01/2013 - 10:51

I use Windows XP through

alicet | Sat, 12/01/2013 - 11:07

The decision isn't just the hardware

Paul Scholes | Sat, 12/01/2013 - 12:27

Thanks for all the advice

eve2206 | Sat, 12/01/2013 - 13:55

Parallels

Ben Smith | Thu, 24/01/2013 - 07:56

Student software - if not a student ...

JC | Thu, 24/01/2013 - 11:01

software

eve2206 | Fri, 25/01/2013 - 09:40

Agreed this is a minefield …

JC | Fri, 25/01/2013 - 10:55

Parallels again

Tkwhitehouse | Fri, 25/01/2013 - 11:08

hells bells and buckets of blood...

eve2206 | Fri, 25/01/2013 - 12:17

Why not

paulwakefield1 | Fri, 25/01/2013 - 13:00

good idea

eve2206 | Fri, 25/01/2013 - 14:09

Current Setup

ashtonaccountancy | Thu, 31/01/2013 - 11:40

How to live in a Mac and MS world

Ketts999 | Thu, 31/01/2013 - 12:09

Windows on MacBook Pro

Ketchup | Thu, 31/01/2013 - 12:54

Thanks

eve2206 | Thu, 31/01/2013 - 13:21

Mac Pro Advice

Ketts999 | Thu, 31/01/2013 - 13:35

Running Sage Line 50 on a Mac / iPad

Ketchup | Thu, 31/01/2013 - 13:46

Mac v PC

jndavs | Thu, 31/01/2013 - 14:29

Beauty of the Mac is not Windows

KH | Thu, 31/01/2013 - 15:17

Best of both worlds

GardenGirl666 | Thu, 31/01/2013 - 17:29

Not the retina one!

eve2206 | Thu, 31/01/2013 - 18:02

Alternative to Parallels/VMware

Tkwhitehouse | Thu, 14/03/2013 - 20:11