TO-Tech Blog

I wrote a little PDF book for O’Reilly Media last summer (2006) titled Windows for Intel Macs. This Short Cuts series book was written with a focus on Mac users who also need to or want to run Microsoft Windows on an Intel based Mac running either Apple Boot Camp (dual boot) or Parallels Desktop for Mac (virtualization).

It is amazing how much has changed since the book was released last August. Microsoft released Windows Vista to replace XP. Parallels went from version 1 to version 3 (which was released just this week). Apple released a couple of minor point releases of Boot Camp (1.3 is the current release). But, I’m not going to talk much about that since I prefer virtualized platforms vs. dual-boot.

The old book (10 months is apparently forever in computer time) is still in the Short Cuts Best Selling list. But, with all the changes in both Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows Vista, I thought I’d provide some updates to the book’s topic area in this blog. I don’t know how regularly I’ll post Parallels/Vista information here. But, I’ll try to post at least a couple of items per week for the next month or two.

It’s been a long time since TO-Tech.com had a functional blog. But, it’s a new year and time to bring it back to life. This blog focuses on aspects of technology that I don’t talk about in my existing blogs (see list below).

To start things off, I’ll be looking at upgrading a low-priced PC (an eMachines T6420) from Windows Media Center Edition to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. Although this is a capable machine, you will probably see why upgrading low-end machines can be anxiety causing. I’ll probably also talk a bit about Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard… when it is released).

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