{"id":351,"date":"2012-07-20T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T21:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steventully.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2015-12-23T01:36:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T06:36:56","slug":"switching-from-pc-to-mac-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Switching from PC to Mac? (part one)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you decided to make the switch from PC to Mac. There are some basics you should know as you move forward.<a href=\"http:\/\/steventully.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Virtualbox_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-363 alignright\" title=\"Virtualbox_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/steventully.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Virtualbox_logo-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steventully.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Virtualbox_logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/steventully.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Virtualbox_logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/steventully.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Virtualbox_logo-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/steventully.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Virtualbox_logo.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, you don&#8217;t have to give up your old operating system. You can install free virtualization software that works really well, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\">VirtualBox<\/a>. Using VirtualBox, or any of the other virtualization software (<a title=\"VMware Fusion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/fusion\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fusion<\/a> or <a title=\"Microsoft Parallels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/products\/desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parallels<\/a>), you can run your Windows XP or Windows 7 applications on your Mac. This may not be for everyone, but if you don&#8217;t mind doing some reading, there is a lot of good information on the web on how to get started. If you want some help setting up a virtual machine to use on your Mac, let me know, and I will be happy to provide some assistance. Just remember, you have to treat this virtual computer just like you would a real PC. It needs antivirus and windows updates. It turns on and off just like a real PC, but it has a software on\/off switch. The virtual machine even needs its own license if you run a Microsoft operating system, just like a real PC. The best thing though, is that you can make backups of it just by copying the files to another safe location, like a USB hard drive. This gives a great option to try out a new piece of software or a way to keep a simple backup of your computer, important software, and critical data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you decided to make the switch from PC to Mac. There are some basics you should know as you move forward. First, you don&#8217;t have to give up your old operating system. You can install free virtualization software that works really well, called VirtualBox. Using VirtualBox, or any of the other virtualization software (Fusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tullytips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}