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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
At work, we are getting so frustrated with our windows machines, we have pondered whether switching to Macs might ease our pain. We used to have Macs back in the day (around system 7 or 8 I think) so we are somewhat familiar with them - We even used to have an ORIGINAL Mac - the very first one. We switched to windows due to software requirements, but those software requirements are probobly gone now.
Does anyone have experience with adding Macs to Windows networks, specifically with Windows Server 2003, and to a domain?
Also, how well does running the windows programs side by side work? I know there is boot camp, but we were reading something else on the Mac site about running windows programs side by side with the Mac programs. Does that work well?
Anything else that might be an issue?
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We use parallels to run Windows while we're running mac. Its ok. Parallels uses up copious amounts of memory though. It isn't as noticable on a mac when you're on your last legs of memory, not like when you're on a PC.
I find some problems accessing our file server, a Windows 2003 box, from the iMac. I have to reboot quite often because I'll lose connection to the server (usually when I leave my computer overnight). We use Entourage to connect to our exchange server. It sucks, but that doesn't seem to matter, my complaints fall on deaf ears.