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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by pwython on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:35AM (#13220094)

  > And if I need to do anything for Windows, I just use Boot Camp.
In my head I imagine 90% of Mac users that use Boot Camp just need it to play PC games. :) Then again, I suppose there's still really specific obscure software out there that is Windows only (or Win/IIS devs that prefer Mac hardware). Which reminds me, I wonder if I'll ever see 3ds Max on MacOS.
Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by justin66 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:55AM (#13220287)
Given the high quality and low cost of VMWare Fusion, I tend to assume the same thing.
Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by rietta on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:39AM (#13220716)
My reason to have Bootcamp is literally to get Elgato Game capture, used to capture the presenter's screen real time, support in OBS so that I can livestream a Bsides conference once a year. I use an old Canopus firewire SD video to live transcode the camcorder in that setup.

I tried to do this in Parallels, but it just didn't work. Turns out live video composition and broadcasting needs the bare metal.

Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by mulletbum on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:01AM (#13220335)
I know for me the big take away for having bootcamp is PowerShell. I work in Office 365, so the modules aren't built to work with it yet, even though there is a working version of PowerShell. Other than that, a couple interactions with Active Directory always cause me problems, so it is easier to just have a Windows Installation hanging out.
Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by nl on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:29AM (#13220612)
The only reasons I've considered using Boot Camp is for MS Project and Visio.

There are reasonable substitutes for Visio now, but damn a MS Project substitute is needed (and no, that thing in LibreOffice doesn't really work).

Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by willyt on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:36AM (#13220692)
MSProject -> Omniplan ?
Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by hashhar on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:30PM (#13223097)
Any serious CAD or simulation software is not easily available on MacOS.
Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by Raphmedia on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:20AM (#13220523)
You wouldn't game on a laptop anyway and you should build your own tower PC for anything serious (which limits you from using OSX).