my current machine) ran Windows faster than any other portable including dedicated Windows ones. At end of 2007 PC World Mag did a speed test and concluded MacBook Pro (i.e. Easy to copy, paste etc from one to other or move easily between the Windows window and other Mac windows.Īlternatively can boot into Windows using BootCamp but I don't do this often.Īs a postscript, this was for a while the fastest way to run Windows on a portable machine. It's very easy to do this with the programs Parallels, or VM Fusion or similar. I am using Windows Office 2003 on the Mac by running Windows (XP) as just another window and running Excel in this window. I installed Mac Office 2008 and found it can't use VBA at all. Quoting one Mac forum contributor 'Microsoft crippled Excel VBA (2004) for Mac so it only works in a limited way'.
It has Office 2004 for Mac which I use for Word and Excel occasionally. A bit of my experience may or may not help.
